The Ministerial Task Force met for the third time on 30 July 2009 at One Queen Anne’s Gate, London. The minutes of the meeting can be downloaded here (pdf, 57 KB).
[This post was back dated. Actual date of posting was 27/8/09.]
These details were first published on 22/6/09 in a summary of the second meeting. However, several people have asked us for them subsequently so I thought I would draw them out in a separate blog post. The overall contact for the MTF is Faye Scott (020 7630 4524, faye at green-alliance dot org dot uk). The MTF has [...]
On Monday this week (20/7/09) Schumacher College brought together a range of stakeholders to consider the training needs of Third Sector organisations in the area of Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change. This builds on the future scanning work the college has been undertaking and was designed to feed recommendations into the Ministerial Task [...]
The Ministerial Task Force (MTF) met again on 15/6/09 but for the first time with ministers present. The meeting was co-chaired by Huw Irranca-Davies (Defra) and Joan Ruddock (DECC) with Campbell Robb representing the new Third Sector Minister, Angela Smith (OTS) and Peter Matthew standing in for Ian Austin of CLG.
The headline agenda items are [...]
A key principle of the Ministerial Task Force is that it should build on what has gone before. We asked for your help in highlighting relevant initaitives and resources in a previous post. Please keep the information coming.
Contributions so far include:
A letter from Richard Boyd, CEO of Disability Essex highlighting their experience so [...]
We published the list of the members of the Ministerial Task Force from the third sector in an earlier post.
Here now are more detailed biographies.
Yesterday afternoon (20/5/09) the third sector members of the Ministerial Task Force met for the first time with officials from the four departments involved.
To some extent we are navigating unchartered waters with this task force in that we (the Government Departments) have not sought to control the process. Instead, we are seeking to work collaboratively [...]
Before listing the third sector members appointed to the Ministerial Task Force we would like to thank all those who have been supportive of this initiative and those who applied for appointment. We sincerely hope that everyone will continue to remain engaged with this crucial, high profile initiative. We have made a serious attempt to contact [...]
As we announced earlier applications have now closed for the Ministerial Task Force and we are waiting for Ministers’* approval of the Third Sector members. However, this doesn’t mean that we can’t start work! A key element of the Terms of Reference for the Task Force (pdf, 25KB) is that it should be informed by on-going projects and work that has already [...]
The window for applications to the Ministerial Task Force closed on 14 April 2009. We received 75 applications and we are now embarking on the selection process. This will be challenging given the quality of the applications received and the need to select on skills and experience and ensure a the diversity of membership that will [...]
