Annual Conference: Tamsila Tauqir - The Compact

Tamsila Tauqir works for the BVSC. She's the compact action advisor and chaired the discussion on Compact, which is the agreement the statutory sector and the voluntary community and faith sector. It deals with how the two sectors can work with each other.

Current consultation of the new Compact document, which will end on July 12.

Tamsila said the main points of the discussion were:-

• It's important that the document deals with the practical issues of working relationships between the statutory and third sector.
• Tamsila said that Birmingham case studies and national case studies will be used in the drawing up of the consutation of the new document.
• The national case studies will help to bring a wider perspective of best practice.