[WiLT] Three-year funding report guidance is published

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Three-year funding report guidance is published

The Office of the Third Sector has today published guidance for
government departments on their new obligation to report progress on
implementing three-year grant funding.

Departments have until the end of October to submit the information.
Agencies and non-departmental public bodies will also have to report
next year, when information on contract funding will be included.

"We are determined to make three-year funding the norm," said Phil
Hope, Minister for the Third Sector.

The findings will be reported to Parliament as part of the annual
Compact review, but the OTS has no powers to punish lagging
departments.

Ben Wittenberg, director of policy and research at the Directory of
Social Change, said the OTS should formally ask the ministers of
non-compliant departments to outline what they were doing to redress
the situation. "Doing that very publicly and sharing the response with
us could give the OTS a lot of credibility," he said.

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/DailyBulletin/842999/Three-year-funding-report-guidance-published/A3DF538F18C981112FC521E07A106717/?DCMP=EMC-DailyBulletin


Press Release:
Government departments to make three year funding the norm for third
sector organisations
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/news/news_stories/080903_funding.aspx

Download:
Three Year Funding - guidance for government departments [PDF 88KB, 14
pages]
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/~/media/assets/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/Three%20Year%20Funding%20Guidance%20pdf.ashx