Third sector minister lays out sector’s role
26th June 2006, 9:37 am
The transcript of Third Sector Minister Ed Miliband’s speech to last week’s Three Sector Summit (22nd June) is now available from the Cabinet Office site (in pdf, Word or RTF formats, although they’ve got the link titles wrong).
His introduction includes a bit of a summary of his approach:
” My argument then is as follows:
— first, the third sector is helping transform the landscape of our society and challenging both private and public sectors on a range of fronts from service delivery to campaigning for social justice.
— second, there are new challenges we face today which call for the skills of the third sector and to deploy those talents to the full, we need clarity about the respective contributions of private, public and third sectors
—third, the sector can contribute to public service improvement in three clear ways: in partnership with the public and private sector, helping mainstream lessons back into the public sector and as a source of voice demanding improvement in public services
— fourth, my role in government, in the new Office of the Third Sector, will be determinedly to break down the barriers that exist to the third sector fulfilling its potential to contribute in these three ways. This will lead to an Action Plan in the Autumn.”