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The Social Inclusion Policy Forum (SIPF) is an initiative of OEM to provide a forum where policy and decision makers, Social Inclusion project practitioners and people experiencing exclusion can share information and experience, debate issues, draw lessons and develop new and more effective and practical responses to Social Exclusion in the region.
Social Inclusion was chosen as a priority policy area by OEM members at a Conference on 30th June 2008. Following internal discussion a VCS Social Inclusion Policy Champion was elected for the region in December 2008. That Champion is Laurie Moran, who is CEO of CEFET another regional Infrastructure body focusing on the European Social Agenda.
The SIPF is constructed so that there are equal voices from strategists and policy makers, front-line, mainly VCS, project practitioners and people experiencing exclusion and poverty themselves. This last group are organised by a CEFET project called the Grass Roots Network (GRN) which brings together people acting on their own initiative in excluded communities. The GRN built the agenda for the SIPF through a series of local and regional meetings in the first half of 2009. The first full SIPF, with 50 delegates, was held in Leicester on 14th July 2009, initiating a discussion about 2010: European Year against Poverty and Exclusion (ET2010). For a full report of the inaugural meeting see below.
From the first meeting a record of policy issues and a draft Terms of Reference were framed and subsequently discussed by another cycle of the GRN meetings. Both documents are available below.
These documents came to the second meeting of the SIPF on 24th September 2009, which was dovetailed with a national Conference on preparing for 2010. The documents were agreed at the afternoon session of that meeting, which also resolved to apply for East Midlands Regional Events funding for EY2010 through the SIPF and discussed possible options. The bid (made by OEM in October 2009) summary can be read if below.
Policy documents for Social Inclusion: | East Midlands Regional Project Summary | This is a copy of the bid made by One EM on behalf of the Social Inclusion Policy Forum.
Publication date: 30 November 2009
| | Emerging Strategy Direction | During the first meeting of the Social Inclusion Policy Forum a record of policy issues were discussed and framed. It was approved at their meeting on the 24 September 2009.
Publication date: 30 November 2009
| | Social Inclusion Policy Forum Report | This is a report of the inaugural meeting of the Social Inclusion Policy Forum held on the 14 July 2009.
Publication date: 30 November 2009
| | Social Inclusion Terms of Reference | Draft Terms of Reference were created in the inaugural meeting of the Social Inclusion Policy Forum on the 14 July 2009. It was approved at their meeting on the 24 September 2009.
Publication date: 30 November 2009
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