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		<title>Findings Published</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Finance Hub has published the findings from the Get Ready for that local authority contract work undertaken by SCEDU and Pelican looking at public sector contracting for third sector organisations.  The work is also available from the homepage of this blog. Follow this link to the Finance Hub website: Findings<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=78&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready Seminar places filling up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Tyack from the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office has been confirmed as the guest speaker at the Get Ready seminar on 14th February. Follow the events link on the right to book your place. Seminar agenda &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=67&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready… FREE EVENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Flyer Thursday 14th February 09:30-14:00 A free event The event will include: o Presentation of findings o Benchmarking presentation o Workshop 1: Networking and Building Relationships with Customers o Workshop 2: Planning for Growth and Change Followed by a free lunch and opportunity to network. There is no charge for attending this event, however [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=64&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As an organisation, to be ready for contracting you will…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do contracting third sector organisations look like? How can your organisation learn from this to help you become ready for contracting? See the Benchmarks Report to see characteristics of successful third sector organisations and what you may need to look like if you want to be involved with third sector contracting. Also further case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=61&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft &#8216;benchmarks of success&#8217; consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draft ‘benchmarks’ of success have been produced for discussion and consultation. Please follow the link on the right to view them and leave comments.The benchmarks are intended to identify current practice and examples of good practice that has enabled third sector organisations to contract with the public sector. The benchmarks are intended to provide information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=38&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Minutes Questionnaire Survey on Contracting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want to here your experiences of local authority contracting. SCEDU has developed a quick questionnaire survey for you to give us your experiences of third sector organisations contracting with the public sector. The aim is to identify current and best practice in public sector contracting. In completing this questionnaire you will help us to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=32&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SCEDU Launch Contracting Case Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first selection of case studies have now been produced and are available from the &#8216;case studies&#8217; link to the right. A report on benchmarking has also been produced available from the &#8216;benchmarks of success&#8217; link. Please leave any feedback and comments on the work to date.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=31&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to GET READY&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCEDU are delivering a contract for the Finance Hub entitled &#8220;Get Ready for that Local Authority Contract&#8221;. We will be using this blog to disseminate some of our findings and allow you an opportunity to leave your comments and thoughts. The work is focusing on procurement and contracting as an option for third sector organisations. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contracting.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1736748&amp;post=1&amp;subd=contracting&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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