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					<title><![CDATA[Sector figures loom large on safeguarding authority board]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/809994/Sector-figures-loom-large-safeguarding-authority-board/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Four voluntary sector leaders are among the 10 board members appointed today by the Independent Safeguarding Authority, which will oversee the new vetting and barring scheme for people working with children and vulnerable adults.]]></description>
					<author>Emma Maier</author>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Hospice chief targets senior ministers over funding]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/809979/Hospice-chief-targets-senior-ministers-funding/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The chief executive of a Manchester hospice and Mark Hunter, Liberal Democrat MP for Cheadle, have met the Prime Minister to urge the Government to improve funding for the hospice movement.]]></description>
					<author>Hannah Jordan</author>
					<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Aid agencies assert 'critical distance' from Government]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/808620/Aid-agencies-assert-critical-distance-Government/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Two of the UK's largest aid agencies have turned down an offer to work closely with the Government on the UN's Millennium Development Goals because they fear it will threaten their independence.]]></description>
					<author>Mathew Little and Rosie Walker</author>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Delays loom for report on capacity-building bodies]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/808619/Delays-loom-report-capacity-building-bodies/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The National Audit Office has delayed publication of its report into whether the Government's third sector programmes ChangeUp and Futurebuilders are good value for money.]]></description>
					<author>Helen Warrell</author>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Tory government 'would monitor social value of policies']]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/808550/Tory-government-would-monitor-social-value-policies/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[A Conservative government would enhance "social value" as well as economic efficiency, David Cameron said yesterday in a speech to the Campaign to Protect Rural England.]]></description>
					<author>Mathew Little</author>
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Korea looks to UK for social enterprise advice]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/808182/Korea-looks-UK-social-enterprise-advice/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Social Enterprise London is helping the Korean government to review its social enterprise policy.]]></description>
					<author>Helen Warrell</author>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Community empowerment networks 'face funding cuts']]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/808178/Community-empowerment-networks-face-funding-cuts/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Forty per cent of community empowerment networks will lose either all or some of their local authority funding over the next year, a survey has found.]]></description>
					<author>Andy Ricketts</author>
					<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Fundraising regulator needs more members, says Hope]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/807919/Fundraising-regulator-needs-members-says-Hope/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The first annual review from the Fundraising Standards Board has prompted a warning from third sector minister Phil Hope that many more organisations must join it if self-regulation of fundraising is to succeed.]]></description>
					<author>Hannah Jordan</author>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Government cash will help enterprises tackle health issues]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/807661/Government-cash-will-help-enterprises-tackle-health-issues/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Government has teamed up with the Social Enterprise Coalition to develop a new fund that will encourage health commissioners to work with social enterprises on problematic health and care issues.]]></description>
					<author>Helen Warrell</author>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Lancashire charities accuse council of breaching Compact]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/807655/Lancashire-charities-accuse-council-breaching-Compact/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Youth charities in Lancashire have accused their local county council of breaching the Compact by cutting funding to local groups without proper consultation.]]></description>
					<author>Marianne Powell</author>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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