{"id":5848,"date":"2013-05-24T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:59:58","slug":"welsh-government-opens-voluntary-sector-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5848","title":{"rendered":"Welsh government opens voluntary sector consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How the Welsh Government and the Third Sector work together in the future is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Welsh government announced it was reviewing its funding of the voluntary sector and it now plans to revise its three key policy documents for working with the sector when the consultation has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Huw Lewis, communities and tackling poverty minister said: \u2018This is the beginning of a vital discussion about one of the most important partnerships in Wales \u2013 that between the Welsh government and third sector.\u2019 ??He said a review was needed because there had been \u2018significant changes\u2019 since the last review five years ago, and the \u2018economic situation has become much more challenging\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis added: \u2018The Welsh government will need to make some important decisions about these issues later this year. Before then, I want to hear from a wide range of people and organisations on their thoughts on how we can work together.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For more information about the consultation and how to respond to it see<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/consultations\/housingcommunity\/welsh-government-third-sector-relationships\/?skip=1&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Welsh Government News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/newsroom\/housingandcommunity\/2013\/third-sector-relationships\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civil Society News<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/governance\/news\/content\/15183\/welsh_government_opens_voluntary_sector_consultation?utm_source=20+May+2013+Finance&amp;utm_campaign=20+May+Finance&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Welsh Government and the Third Sector work together in the future is the focus of a new consultation launched by the Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis. Earlier this year, the Welsh government announced it was reviewing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}