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		<title>5000 fewer managers, 4000 more doctors?</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/14/5000-fewer-managers-4000-more-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/14/5000-fewer-managers-4000-more-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn to speak like a fully engaged, customer-facing choice moderniser&#8230; Health Emergency have an entertaining and insightful guide to the language and spurious concepts used by those currently busying themselves with the dismantling of our welfare state. Have a giggle, get cross, pass it on: http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/pdf/TeachyourselfLansley.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>We have ways of transforming you&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/11/we-have-ways-of-transforming-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/11/we-have-ways-of-transforming-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[co-option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[megers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners and losers in the Transforming Local Infrastructure beauty contest have been announced. But is twisting yourself into a pretzel to please the government the best way to support local voluntary action? Here Adrian Barritt has a rant against the rise of the cyberstate…. Back in the 1970’s, the Cybermen with their sibilous metallic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read the latest newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/10/newsletter-feb201/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/10/newsletter-feb201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NCIA work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for news of fighting back and battles won, alongside some sorry tales from voluntary organisations who&#8217;ve forgotten we&#8217;re meant to be heading for social justice not an unequal pay day. Plus a questioning editorial from NCIA&#8217;s Andy Benson: he&#8217;s never expected to be on the winning side, but wants to know who else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprisingly scathing critique from Barings panel, but no call to arms</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/08/surprisingly-scathing-critique-from-barings-panel-but-no-call-to-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/08/surprisingly-scathing-critique-from-barings-panel-but-no-call-to-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCIA was pleased to see a strong attack on the effects of market-led commissioning models, but thinks the panel needs to be less cautious on the change that is needed on two key issues: funding and commissioning mechanisms, and the need for voluntary organisations to combine to fight off the threats to their autonomy. NCIA welcomes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Action Fund: all target, no aim&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/06/social-action-fund-all-target-no-aim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/06/social-action-fund-all-target-no-aim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.independentaction.net/?p=8990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last friday, 2nd February, time was called on applications to the Government&#8217;s Social Action Fund. Branded on its prospectus as “&#8230;.funding big ideas, inspiring social action” some thought maybe, just maybe, this might offer some welcome support to authentic local voluntary action. But Adrian Barritt of Adur Voluntary Action discovered it was a missed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre upbeat response by Compact Voice to damning NAO report</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/01/bizarre-upbeat-response-by-compact-voice-to-damning-nao-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/02/01/bizarre-upbeat-response-by-compact-voice-to-damning-nao-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compact]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.independentaction.net/?p=8982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Compact Voice continues its happy-clappy approach to the disaster that is the Compact in welcoming the National Audit Office report on its (non) implementation in central government. &#8220;We are delighted that the Compact is supported by government departments and that the NAO have found good examples of it being applied&#8221; says Compact Voice&#8217;s Simon Blake, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Insurgency: The Case against Partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/25/for-insurgency-the-case-against-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/25/for-insurgency-the-case-against-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[partnership working]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly two decades we have been told that &#8216;partnership&#8217; is the way forward, bringing us all together in &#8216;one big happy family&#8217;. But is partnership working really a confidence trick, confirming and exploiting unequal power relationships? Here Professor Jonathan Davies of De Montfort University outlines the arguments and trails his recent book which locates the fashion for partnership working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand something different: NCIA planning group notes</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/25/ncia-planning-group-17jan201/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/25/ncia-planning-group-17jan201/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NCIA work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.independentaction.net/?p=8954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How to focus NCIA&#8217;s work in the next six months - and make the most of alliances - was up for discussion at the  planning group meeting on 17 January at TUC Congress House. Present: Chris Walsh, Jonathan Hyams, Steve Lancashire, Bernard Davies, Andy Benson (chair), Ruth Cohen (notes), Maxine Moar, Penny Waterhouse, Frances Sullivan, Colin Rochester, Matt Dykes, Nick Beddoes, Nazreen Subhan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What should activists do in 2012?</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/11/natcan23feb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/11/natcan23feb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NCIA work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.independentaction.net/?p=8936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Join fellow activists along with NCIA&#8217;s Andy Benson and other speakers at the first National Community Activists Conference on 23 February 2012. The conference runs from10am to 4pm at University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Find out more on the NatCAN website: http://nationalcan.ning.com/events/national-community-activists-conference  Guest Speakers include: Margaret Leadwith &#8211; author of Community Development: A Critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read the latest NCIA newsletter</title>
		<link>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/05/ncia-dec2011-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.independentaction.net/2012/01/05/ncia-dec2011-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.independentaction.net/?p=8932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the latest news from the dark side of voluntary action, along with stories of how people are fighting back and what NCIA folks have been doing to make a louder noise about resisting privatisation, hanging on to our principles in turbulent times, and making space for independent action in our communities. Let us know [...]]]></description>
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