2nd news update

There has been much comment and some analysis of the August riots in England and whether or not inequality played a part. This conference provides an opportunity to hear from a range of voices and consider the implications for the future of race equality.

• Where: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
• When: 13:00-17:00, 21st January 2012

On 9th February 2012 a mix of BME and other specialist voluntary and community organisations, generic VCOs and public sector organisations gathered at Voice4Change England’s Big Society and Equality event held in partnership with One North West. 

On 9 June 2011 the Communities and Local Government Select Committee launched the report of its inquiry into the Government’s plans for localism and decentralisation of public services. The Report concludes that ‘Government’s desire to deliver localism is neither supported consistently across Whitehall nor implemented coherently by each department of state’ and that Ministers have ‘so far produced no compelling vision of what their imagined localist future will look like.’  The report makes a number of recommendations including for the forthcoming White Paper on public service reform.

Issan Ghazni has today been announced as Interim Director of V4CE, by Chair, Elizabeth Balgobin.