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A. ii) Income and expenditure to be accounted for in the WNC’s Annual Report

i) WNC to ensure clear protocols and agreements are set up with Delivery Partners at the outset. WNC Chair to be kept informed where new delivery partnerships arise and keep these under review.

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A. i) WNC (Chair/Director) to undertake a proactive review of the expenditure and allocation of the budget once work programmes have been agreed with Ministers and

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B. i) As a priority, the WNC (Director) should produce a draft memorandum of understanding in consultation with the WNC Chair and Commissioners and to be signed off by the Director General for the Equalities Directorate and Ministers.

C. i) That by October 2009 the WNC would have established a working relationship with the CEHR and have presented a paper to the WNC Commissioners and Ministers as to how the WNC was operating.

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ii) WNC to establish clear remits and protocols when working with interest groups and Commissioners to be advised.

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D. i) The WNC Board by operating as non executive directors can enhance the efficiency of the organisation and provide much appreciated support to staff.

D. ii) The WNC board to review the way it receives reports and information from the WNC secretariat to monitor performance and ensure it meets their needs.

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1. Board to discuss at meeting, whether any changes are necessary to current arrangements.

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2. Meeting taking place with EHRC officials to discuss arrangements for working together.

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1. Arrange meeting with EHRC officials to gain agreement to establishing an MOU.

5. Deadline for MoU to be agreed and in place.

3. Draft of proposals produced, following meeting.

4. Final draft produced and forwarded to EHRC contacts for final comments before completion.

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1. Paper to be drafted on operating as a Board of non-executive Directors.

2. Paper circulated with other papers for Board meeting.

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2. Any changes to process of reporting to the Board, put in place.

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1. Chair & Director to discuss and carefully consider expenditure attached to new work programme.

2. Chair & Director to discuss expenditure attached to new work programme.

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3. Director to present WNC Work Programme to GEO/Ministers to seek agreement.

4. New Work Programme agreed with Commissioners and Ministers and in place for new operational year.

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1. Work begins on drafting new Annual Report, with requests to colleagues for info on main activity throughout last year and full financial statement. 2

2. First full draft of new Annual Report completed for Director’s comments on text and Financial Statement.

3. Revised draft produced filling gaps and revising content. Director & Deputy Director comment.

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4. Third draft produced and after brief check of text and Financial Statement, passed to Chair for input and comment.

5. Final draft completed and passed to Commissioners for final comments. .

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6. Complete draft published on website and copied to Minister, GEO and placed in Parliament and other establishments as required.

1. First/outline draft of MoU with GEO produced.

2. Second draft of MoU to be produced by early February.

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3. Third draft of MoU produced and commented on by Director, Chair and GEO.

4. Final draft of MoU produced and forwarded to DG for Equalities and Ministers for agreement and sign-off.

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1. First draft of a stencil containing set of protocols and a cycle of evaluation produced for comment/input by Director.

2. Second draft of stencil produced by early Feb and added to draft MoU.

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2. Second draft of stencil produced by early Feb and added to draft MoU.

Stencil updated as above, as part of MoU

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2B. Draft still with GEO for reply. Will action/update within 7 days of receipt.

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2B. Draft still with GEO for reply. Will action/update within 7 days of receipt.

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E. ii) WNC Commissioners recognise the need to ensure that proper governance procedures are in place.

E. iv) The WNC board has established a quarterly meeting pattern this could be built on good practice and exchanges of information increased.

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E. i) WNC commissioners recognise the need to be mindful at all times that it is an NDPB and as such WNC Commissioners must ensure that it operates accordingly.

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E. iii) WNC has an established business planning process. Commissioners to be fully engaged with this as outlined at 8.2. and work with the sponsoring department and Ministers to approve these.

F. ii) The Chair’s remuneration should be increased to £13,000.

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F. i) Commissioners should be paid a remuneration fee of £163 per day based on their daily time input.

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F. iii) The sponsoring department adjust the core baseline budget to increase by £22,560 to cover the remuneration fees of the commissioners (or accordingly, if time input is assessed to be greater than 12 days per annum) and the increase in the chairs fee.

F. iv) The rate of remuneration and expected time input of commissioners to be clearly stated within their terms and conditions.

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1. Paper to be drafted on operating as an advisory NDPB.

2. Paper circulated with other papers for Board meeting.

1. Revised Governance Paper drafted, incorporating all individual WNC documents and circulated for Board meeting.

2. Revised version of Governance Paper drafted by early February.

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1. Director to seek clarity from GEO as to the thinking behind this recommendation. .

2. Board to discuss any changes or further activity in relation to Board meetings.

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3. Board content with arrangements in place.

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2. GEO to include revised figure in the advertisement for the new Chair as part of the recruitment exercise.

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1. Director to obtain from GEO confirmation that funding has been agreed with HMT to cover the cost of Commissioners’ remuneration.

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3. Revised and final Plan agreed with Chair, Commissioners and GEO, for forwarding to Ministers for formal agreement and sign-off.

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2. Criteria on arrangements for Commissioners’ remuneration, worked up and agreed with GEO.

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G. ii) Once Ministers have considered the review findings the recruitment process for a new director should commence taking account of the above.

H. i) The WNC should return to its core remit of engaging with women’s organisations, particularly those without a national profile, and bringing their voice to government. They should look for low cost and effective means of doing so for feasibility.

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G. i) The WNC should consider that when it undertakes work from other Government Departments it should include an over head cost for an additional staff resource to manage projects e.g. the Iraqi internship programme.

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G. iii) The Director’s posting should be for a period of two or three years.

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H. ii) Chair and Commissioners to look at re-allocation of the budget to maximise communications and stakeholder management.

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2. Director to carry out further examination of budget allocated to Outreach-Communications activity in light of Board discussion and identify room for manoeuvre.

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1. First draft of new criteria to include a standard set of expenses and issues to negotiate and agree with OGDs, supported by GEO colleagues, for comment/input by Director.

2. Second draft of criteria produced and added to draft MoU by mid-February.

Criteria updated as above, as part of MoU

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3. Chair and Director to discuss options for future Outreach activity and what improvements could be made.

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1. Board discussion at December meeting on draft Outreach-Communications Strategy.

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4. Final Strategy put to March Board meeting.

1. Board discussion at December meeting on draft Outreach-Communications Strategy.

2. In light of Board discussion, Director to ensure Strategy includes analysis of partner database, targeted sector events, regional events in devolved and English regions and a revamped interactive website

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3. Final Outreach-Communications Strategy put to March Board meeting for sign-off.

2. Director to oversee analysis of partners database to identify under-representation where targeted activity needs to take place.

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1. Latest Newsletter to Partners and contacts distributed, including short feedback survey.

3. Director to confirm that feedback survey added to website seeking suggestions for improvements.

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4. Director to ensure that Outreach Strategy includes a full range of events that are appropriate, including Parliamentary and regional.

6. Final Strategy put to March Board meeting.

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5. Initial revamp of website complete, with stage 2 planning, advanced.

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2B. WORGS completed and published incorporating three sections.

2B. Draft still with GEO for reply. Will action/update within 7 days of receipt.

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