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Cabinet aims to create 25,000 new jobs
24 November 2009
A new Cabinet sub-committee wants to create 25,000 jobs in the third sector by 2011 by removing barriers to not-for-profit organisations winning central government contracts.
Ministers from eight Whitehall departments, including the Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions and Communities and Local Government, are expected to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on the Third Sector on 1 December.
The committee, which was announced in the summer, will look at barriers to third sector organisations delivering public service contracts and suggest ways of removing them. It will be coordinated by the Office of the Third Sector.
Read more at Third Sector website: http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Channels/Fundraising/Article/965193/Cabinet-Committee-Third-Sector-aims-create-25000-jobs/
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Influencing Parliament with the Communities and Local Government Select Committee
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►How groups can effectively engage with Parliament
►Insights from a Specialist Clerk from the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee
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