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The Queensland Compact

 
          
               
   The Queensland Compact                            Action Plan
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The Queensland Compact is designed to guide the relationship between the Community services sector and the Queensland Government. The vision of the Queensland Compact is:
 
The Queensland Government and Non-profit Community Services Sector working together for a better quality of life and a fair community for all Queenslanders now and in the future.
 
The Goals of the Queensland Compact are:
 
1.     Build strong working relationships
2.     Improve engagement in planning and policy
3.     Improve sector’s capacity and sustainability
4.     Continue to improve service quality and innovation
 
The Compact essentially commits both parties to a set of principles and commitments to work together in a respective, productive forward-looking relationship that benefits the community.
 
The Compact applies to all Queensland Government agencies and to all sector organisations which arecommitted to the Queensland Community Services Sector Charter.
 
 
 
 

The latest on the Queensland Compact

The Compact Governance Committee will have their last meeting for 2009 on Thursday 22 OCtober. It will be an important meeting to for the committee to check in on the progress on Compact implementation and to chart the steps forward.   

 

To find out more on the progress of the Compact Governance Commtitee, click here to read the communiquees form the meetings.

 

 

Go to… the Compact Governance Committee

 

Go to… Implementing the Compact  

 
Background to Compact development
Over the past few years, the Community Services Futures Forum has been lobbying for the development of a Compact to underpin how the government and the community services sector work together. Read about the rationale for a Queensland Compact and the preliminary work to a Compact in Queensland.
 
 In November 2007, the Queensland Government agreed to negotiate a Compact with the Community Services Sector in Queensland. In considering what the Queensland Compact might look like, partnership agreements from other jurisdictions were drawn upon as examples. Read about the background to the Compact development process.
 
Drafting the Compact  
Drafting of the Compact document took place over December 2007 to June 2008 between representatives from government and the sector through a series of workshops with a consultant.
 
The draft Compact was released for public consultation from 11th June to 25th July. Over 200 responses were received from sector organisations. Government had a parallel process to seek input from relevant government agencies. The Queensland Compact Consultation Report from the sector is available for download. 
 
Compact endorsement and launch  
A final draft of the Queensland Compact was endorsed by all members of the Community Services Futures Forum in September 2009. This draft was subsequently tabled for endorsement inCabinet.
 
 
For more information about the Queensland Compact, contact Lisa Toh, QCOSS Sector Development Project Officer on (07) 3004 6901 or email lisat@qcoss.org.au.