South Lanarkshire Compact

The Compact will:

• Strengthen the relationship between the public and voluntary sector;

• Extend opportunities for the voluntary sector’s members, supporters and users to contribute their experience and ideas to the development and implementation of public policy;

• Provide better understanding of the size, needs and diversity of the voluntary sector to enable its continued development and sustainability;

• Make the policies and practice developed by the public sector partners, more responsive to the potential and needs of the voluntary sector;

• Enable voluntary organisations to communicate the needs of their users and wider constituencies more effectively to the public sector;

• Extend the opportunities to mobilise each sector behind programmes when these coincide with the objectives of both;

• Generate evidence and information on the value and impact of the work of the public sector and of the voluntary sector;

• Increase mutual understanding of how each sector works;

• Inform longer-term planning and strategic thinking.

Joint Commitments

All partners endorsing the Compact will:

• Promote partnership working between the public and voluntary sectors as a means of improving the lives of people and communities in South Lanarkshire;

• Contribute resources, ideas, specialist knowledge and innovation to the principle of partnership working between the sectors;

• Tackle inequality, prejudice, and discrimination to meet the needs of South Lanarkshire’s most  disadvantaged communities;

• Develop and maintain positive dialogue around issues of mutual interest, adhering to the National Standards for Community Engagement;

• Contribute to increased information on the level and nature of activity taking place across the South Lanarkshire voluntary sector;

• Acknowledge the differences between rural and urban circumstances including issues such as accessibility and resources;

• Support and develop the particular role of volunteering in voluntary and community organisations and in the public sector.

 

Working Together for a Better South Lanarkshire