Voice 4 Change England

Responses to Consultations

Voice4Change England aims to influence government’s policies by responding to consultations. To represent the interests of the BME communities and the BME Third Sector, Voice4Change England has responded to the government and other agencies in their consultations with the Third Sector.

The recent responses are listed on the right to download. If you have any problems in accessing them please contact us on info@voice4change-england.co.uk

Older repsonses are listed below.

• Response to Cabinet Office consultation on 'Effective Consultation' - Sept 2007
• Response to the Compact Business Plan consultation - July 2007
• Response to the consultation on the Community Asset Fund - June 2007

Also, below is a list of other positional papers we have released.

V4CE position on the Equalities and Human Rights Commission - March 2008.

V4CE is a member of the National Equality Partnership and has been involved in producing the NEP response to the DCLG's Cohesion Guidance for Funders consultation May 2008. Further details about NEP from the equalities and diversity section of the Improving Support website.

In addition, Voice4Change England has been lobbying against the Commission for Integration and Cohesion’s proposal against ‘Single Group’ funding, set out in Annex D of the Commission’s report ‘Our Shared Future’. Please see campaigns for details.

For more information, contact Arjumand Kazmi, Head of Policy at arjumand@voice4change-england.co.uk.