Cabinet Office Third Sector

Partnership Working

One of the Office of the Third Sector’s key roles is to drive cross-government action to improve partnership working and ensure better terms of engagement between central and local government and the third sector. This is done through a variety of methods:.

In this section:

• Public Service Agreement Framework 
  Details of the central Public Service Agreement Framework and the key Public Service Agreements relevant to the third sector.
• Local Government Performance Framework 
  Details of the main tool for better engagement between central and local government and the third sector and the two third sector national indicators.
• Compact 
  Information on the Compact on Relations between Government and the Voluntary and Community Sector in England’ (Compact), which is the framework agreement for how the government and the sector should work together.