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By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 19 March 2008
Sir Bert Massie
The former chair of the Disability Rights Commission will today be announced as the new Commissioner for the Compact. Sir Bert Massie, who was also chief executive of disability charity Radar, has been appointed for three years.
He will take over the position on 1 April from interim commissioner Helen Baker. She was appointed after the first commissioner, John Stoker, resigned unexpectedly for personal reasons after less than a year in the job (Third Sector Online, 7 September 2007).
In Massie's first interview about his appointment, he told Third Sector he would explore whether statutory powers for the Compact, which governs how public and voluntary sector organisations should treat each other, would be necessary.
"The jury's out," he said. "I will certainly want to examine whether the commission should recommend making the Compact statutory." Renaming the Compact could also help raise its profile, he suggested.
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brian finnigan, 22 March 2008, 14:30
It is said, in relation to the appointment of Sir Bert Massie to the Chair of Compact, that Compact governs how public and Voluntary sector organisations should treat each other. Part of the population might say with respect, others might say with disdain. Neing a member of a local council, i.e. an elected member through the democratic process, since 1995 and for about five year during that time a trustee along with two other councillors of a local charity, we found that a lot of the work of the charity fell upon our shoulders. We had many willing workers wanting to help, but unfortunately, mainly when the work fitted in with their other plans. We aimed to help younger people from Primary School age upwards to eighteen, but we found our selves alone at certain key times. Sometimes the attitude emanating was 'well, as councillors you know the ropes, so you should do X or Y not us'.We also had to spend a lot of time attrempting to raise further funds, none of which was coming from the public sector. However, we were allotted a youth worker part-time who did wonders for us and the young people.
I wouls suggest that where a need is seen and public sector funding is not allowed to be used for that preceived need, then if a charity sets about trying to improve matters, then the local public sector bodies should seriously consider the secondment of personnel at the most appropriate times to allow the charity to succeed in satisfying that need. Therefore, Sir Bert might well consider asking that principal local authorities be empowered to assist in funding or dundraising activities, and by detaching key personnel at agreed times. This funding might well need to be ring-fenced by the Principal Authorities, but the Compact Organisation could challenge, if necessary that the funding and other arrangements have been made with appropriate best value decisions, and act in a similar manner to the National Audir Office.
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