AQW 43142/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 03/03/2015
Answered On Date: 19/03/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Social Development, pursuant to AQW 42334/11-15, to detail the outcomes of these meetings, and whether the minutes are available for Voluntary Community Sector Groups.

Answer:

My initial meeting with the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Co-Chairs of the Joint Forum in October 2014 was held as part of my round of introductory meetings with key VCS stakeholders. No formal minutes of the meeting were taken.

Following Joint Forum meetings, minutes are produced for circulation and are summarised in a Joint Communiqué. These are circulated to Joint Forum members for distribution to their voluntary and community networks and public sector colleagues. The Joint Forum secretariat also publishes these documents on the DSD and NICVA websites.

The minutes and communiqué for the Joint Forum meeting I attended on 18 February 2015 have yet to be finalised and are planned to issue within the next 2 weeks.