Essex Compact

Welcome to The Essex Compact page.

A Compact is a voluntary agreement which aims to underpin and support better joint working between statutory agencies, such as local councils, and the voluntary and community sector in working together fairly and productively to improve the well-being of people living and working in Essex. It sets out principles and standards for a good, open, fair relationship between statutory and voluntary agencies.   In Essex there is Compact working on a national, county and in many cases district compacts basis.

In writing the current Essex Compact we paid close attention to the District and Borough Compacts which were up and running in nearly all Essex Districts and Boroughs and to the National Compact. We see District Compacts as guiding district-level activity, the Essex Compact as guiding county-wide or at least wider than individual district work, and the National Compact as applying to national processes. This is not a hierarchy and the smallest Compact carries as much authority as the biggest.

The Essex Compact was originally produced in 2004, but was extensively rewritten and extended in 2007-8, involving many voluntary and statutory organisations and a public consultation that ended in late January 2008, this new version was adopted in April 2008.

The Essex Compact consists of a core statement and four more specific codes of practice on

• Code of Practice - Volunteering
• Code of Practice - Public engagement
• Code of Practice - Funding and procurement
• Code of Practice - Marginalised groups

We’ve supplemented it with Compact Annexe Explanations which explains some of the more complex issues and a Compact Glossary for the terms used. You can access all these documents using the links below.

We are encouraging organisations to sign up to the Essex Compact. Once this is done we can support any organisation which believes it has suffered through a breach of the Compact through advocacy (by way of the National Compact Advocacy Scheme) or by local mediation.

for further information, to sign up or to update your details please contact Yvette Wetton on 07786 125025 or by e-mail: yvette.wetton@essex.gov.uk

If you’re in the voluntary and community sector and need help in making a point to another organisation about their perceived failure to behave according to the Compact, the National Compact Advocacy Scheme can help you as it does take up cases about local Compacts.

If you think mediation (a neutral person helping two groups who are in disagreement to find common ground) would help, there is an Essex Compact Mediation Panel: contact Yvette Wetton on 07786 125025, or email yvette.wetton@essex.gov.uk for information on how to access.

 

Essex Compact Steering Group 2011/12

• Canon John Brown – Independent Chair
• Keith Biggar – Essex, Southend and Thurrock LiNK
• Melanie Evans – Essex County Council
• Suzanne Harris – Rural Community Council for Essex
• Thomas Nutt – Essex County Council
• Chris Overend – Epping Forest District Council
• Kirsty O’Callaghan – Castlepoint AVS
• Tracey Rudling – Colchester CVS
• Chris Rust – Maldon District Council
• Brenda Towle – Essex Council for Voluntary Youth Services
• Yvette Wetton – Essex County Council
• Judith Wright – CHARMS

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