Cabinet Office News

Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, today launched a new taskforce to help more black, Asian and minority ethnic women to become councillors, and so make councils more representative of the community.

Phil Hope, Cabinet Office Minister with responsibility for social exclusion, today visited two ground-breaking projects that are helping Manchester´s most vulnerable adults to find a home and a job.

Phil Hope, Minister for the East Midlands, today called on the world´s top film-makers to come to the East Midlands to create their next blockbuster.

Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, today joined volunteers at Newark Mind to help prepare lunch for people attending the charities´ resource centre. As well as pitching in with the work, the minister saw first hand the contribution that volunteers make to helping people with mental health problems.

Sixty key public sector appointments will now be subject to increased scrutiny by Parliament, the Government announced today.

Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, today called on charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises to give their views on the Draft Legislative Programme (DLP)

Sir Gus O´Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, spent today volunteering as a cycling coach at Thames Chase Forest Centre in Essex, as part of a drive to encourage more civil servants to volunteer in their communities.

The Cabinet Office today published guidance to help organisations that use volunteers to be clear about when they do and don´t need to carry out Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks on volunteers.

Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, today volunteered at Winton Primary School in King´s Cross as part of national Volunteers´ Week. The Minister, a former teacher himself, helped to teach maths in an after school scheme which aims to encourage pupils to learn maths by linking the course with football.