To consider a report of the Executive Member for Communities and Partnerships.

NOTE: Councillor Whitham declared a Personal Interest in this item in relation to his employment within the VCSE Sector and membership of the VCSE Leadership Group.]

The Executive Member for Communities and Partnerships submitted a report which advised Members that the GM VCSE Accord Agreement was a three-way collaboration agreement between GMCA, GM Health and Social Care Partnership and the GM VCSE Sector, represented by the GM VCSE Leadership Group. The agreement had been refreshed and signed off at the September GMCA meeting, with a request for each Council to consider approving and endorsing the new agreement. The report provided Members with details of the new agreement and the implications of the commitments set out in the agreement for Trafford. The Executive was advised that a VCSE Strategy was in development; the principles of the accord would inform this, and the Council’s impending renewal of contracting arrangements for the support of the sector.

          RESOLVED -

(1)      That the new GM VCSE Accord as presented in the annex attached to the report, and the implications that the commitments it contains will have on work with the VCSE sector in Trafford,be noted.

(2)      That the new GM VCSE Accord be approved, and endorsement confirmed on behalf of Trafford.