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 Among the most influential third sector bodies were the National Association for Voluntary & Community Action; the Urban Forum; British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres; Community Matters and the Development Trusts Association. A ‘community sector coalitions’ latterly formalised some of these relationships. Arguably especially important was a hybrid body between the third sector and the state: the Community Development Foundation, a non-departmental body with a direct line to government and a strong commitment to the recognition of a ‘community sector’ differentiated from the wider third sector (Chanan 1991).
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 Latterly, acting as Prime Minister Brown’s lead for preparing the Labour Party’s manifesto material on the third sector, he has effectively argued for further centralisation – and a central-local coordination lead from Whitehall – especially through his endorsement of ‘stronger powers’ for the national quango, the Commission for the Compact (Blunkett 2008, pp. 10–11). Finally, at the time of writing he has been appointed to head an advisory panel on youth volunteering expected to recommend that an unprecedented degree of compulsion should be incorporated into policy in this area (The Guardian, 24 April 2009).
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Miliband’s thinking has been given particular attention in the sector more broadly, in part as recognition that he might in the medium term be a leader of the Labour Party and in part because of his background. He had graduated from a junior Parliamentary post at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations to the well known New Labour think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, where he became Secretary to the influential Borrie Commission on Social Justice, a key source document for the Labour Party manifesto. While he did not particularly highlight the third sector in that role, his thinking on double devolution was to be significant in pressing forward both the reform of local government and, as part of that, the community empowerment agenda.
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 As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, responsibility for third sector policy is listed as the second of five areas. He gave evidence alongside Phil Hope, the then Minister for the Third Sector.
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Kendall, J., Taylor, M. (2010). On the Interdependence Between Politics and Policy in the Shaping of English Horizontal Third Sector Initiative. In: Gidron, B., Bar, M. (eds) Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1259-6_9
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