2006 Winners

The 2006 Winners of Compact Excellence

Compact way of working in partnership

• Merton [GOLD] - following 15 earlier wins, another 25 in 2006 from 3 sources (planned, opportunistic and when things go wrong) alongside an innovative Compact way of working monitoring system.
• Bond - facilitating sector policy engagement (including consultations) with government and especially DFID.
• Congleton - from strategy to practice with Compact worker and training support, includes developing sport and disability partnership projects.
• HM Treasury and Cabinet Office - Third Sector Policy Review consultation programme of 9 regional events with Ministers; 80+ sub-regional events for small groups, and events on social enterprise, corporate community involvement, faith communities, BME, gender, LGBT, and disability.
• Warwickshire - county council's 5-year sector strategy, agreed after a consultative review, incorporates a 30 point action plan (monitored by a joint group) for internal delivery of the countywide Compact, to enhance the sector's role as a major partner including in the LAA and take working together with the sector to a new level.
• Wolverhampton - implementation supported by Compact workers in the sector and council and Compact champions, focussed on improving community outcomes using learning partnership Compact principles and a training and support package at local neighbourhood partnerships level.

Local Area Agreement/Statement of community involvement

• Gloucestershire [GOLD] - a resourced, Compact compliant statement (including accountable LAA governance) driven by the LAA Partnership and Participation Project supporting 500+ voluntary organisations in strategy groups, resulting in adding an environmental block, identifying cross-cutting issues, equality proofing, wide community engagement, aligning ChangeUp funds to developing sector as delivery partner, and mapping sector impact.
• Hertfordshire - to implement a resourced statement within a demonstration quality LAA that uses Herts Compact as the golden thread to Compact-proof governance and service delivery: an LAA liaison officer has been employed, sector capacity boosted for involvement in the LSP and across all blocks, and full cost recovery operates for pump priming grants.

Implementing funding reform and involving the sector in commissioning & procurement

• Birmingham [GOLD] - demonstration quality council/sector joint working on innovative, sector-friendly and Compact-compliant commissioning process.
• ACEVO - Full Cost Recovery: running a Campaign; Mind the Gap guide for funders; and, with NACVA, a training programme reaching 300+ organisations a year.
• HM Treasury - Local Area Pathfinders, pilot project in Cumbria, Dorset, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Tower Hamlets for local authorities committing to implementing Compact funding principles, removing commissioning and procurement barriers to and realising potential of public service delivery by the sector, building stronger Compact-based partnership, and involving central and local government/sector dialogue leading to action plans, with results feeding into national policy development.

Compact Promotion, Championing, Proofing and Use

• Haringey [GOLD] - Compact film produced for use as accessible tool to promote Local Compact, helps people learn how to use it, and disseminate good partnership practice.
• BME Standing Conference Partnership - setting up new national BME organisation to give a national voice for the BME sector, including on the Compact.
• Cornwall - learning partnership, with strong sector participation and using Compact principles in their Compact learning aid skills code, has delivered a package of projects for capacity building, skills for life, and community-level sector activity via a community skills partnership drawing on £2m LSC funding.
• South West Regional Compact Partnership - joint work on linking the regional Compact with regional economic strategy.
• Hampshire - Compact film with workshop sessions and Q&A produced by the local performing arts group Phoenix Theatre to promote One Compact Hampshire and its use through a story about a grant applicant.
• Kent - facilitated by the county council, the Compacts in Kent Group shares and spreads best practice between districts via a network of Compact champions, a family of quality arrangements and strengthened sector infrastructure for Kent, paving the move from a county to a countywide Compact aligned with community strategies, LSPs and the county LAA.
• West Midlands Region Compact Forum - supported by GOWM and bringing together Local Compact Voice and public body representatives to share Local Compact learning and successes, including through their own website.