The Compact on Relations between Government and the Voluntary and Community Sector

In 1998 the Home Office published the Compact on Relationships between Government and the VCS accompanied by Codes of Good Practice on Funding, Consultation and Policy Appraisal, Black and Minority Ethnic Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations, Volunteering and Community Groups.

The Compact is a framework for partnership working between Government and the VCS. It was inspired by The Deakin Commission report on the ‘Future of the Voluntary Sector’, which recommended partnership between Government and the sector to lay down basic principles of future relations. The Compact is the result of consultation across Government and the voluntary and community sector. Devolved Administrations have also produced their own similar frameworks.