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On Wednesday 9th July, Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for communities and local government, launched the empowerment white paper – Communities in Control: real people, real power. The white paper addresses seven key issues, which it aims to address from the perspective of the individual citizen:

• being active in your community
• access to information
• having an influence
• challenge
• redress
• standing for office
• ownership and control

Many of the proposals in it will impact on third sector organisations – both directly and indirectly. A summary of the key points for the VCS is now available

To accompany the launch of the white paper, Hazel Blears is blogging for seven days, as well as updating her activities on twitter.

Update – A full NCVO briefing is now available

Its interesting to also note that Hazel Blears blog was supposed to have a seven day duration, but due to popular demand she has continued the blog and the twitter I think there have been some good comments made on her blog, and to her credit she has also been responding to the specific as well as the generic points that people have been making.