NCVO praises health department's use of Compact

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 9 April 2008

The NCVO has praised improvements in the Department of Health's approach to funding the voluntary sector after it announced £24m of funding for charities last week.

Third sector organisations have threatened the department with legal action in the past because they said its system of grants, known as Section 64 awards, breached the Compact agreement that sets guidelines for relations between the sector and the state. But Saskia Daggett, Compact advocacy manager at the NCVO, said...

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