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Insurance Cover Working Group
The Home Office established the Insurance Cover
Working Group working group in July 2002 following the
receipt of letters from a number of Members of
Parliament and voluntary and community groups regarding
difficulties being experienced with insurance cover in
the sector.
The Home Office invited a number of interested
parties from the voluntary and community sector and
other government departments to form the ICWG to look
into the reasons for this sudden insurance provision
problem for the sector, and to advise if there was any
way government departments could assist. The main
outcome has been the acceptance that Ministers needed to
be better informed and made aware of the seriousness of
the situation. The members of ICWG wrote a paper to
explain the problem and the reasons for it , along with
some ideas as to possible areas for consideration to
alleviate the problem, which was entitled "Paper to
Ministers".
Following on from this paper, Independent consultants
undertook an in-depth study into this issue and their
report was made public on 11 July 2003. The report gives
a "snapshot" of the current situation as of
March to June 2003, and produced an "Action
Plan" of suggested possible practical solutions for
consideration by Government Departments, the Insurance
Industry and the voluntary and community sector. All
parties are being encouraged to review the Action Plan
and assess what is possible and necessary, so that
decisions can be made to formulate implementation of
agreed actions. The report is published below.
The ICWG will continue facilitating dialogue between
all interested parties and will reconvene at the end of
the Summer to review progress on the agreement of
possible and practical solutions.
Readers are invited to respond to the findings of the
report, if they wish, but it must be noted that the
report is only a discussion paper and the invitation for
comments is not a formal consultation.
Key documents
Some of the documents below are in
PDF 
format. To view them, you may first need to download a
free copy of the Adobe
Acrobat reader.
Paper to inform Ministers of the
serious nature of the problems being faced by the
voluntary and community sector regarding insurance
cover:
Report from the Insurance Cover
Working Group (ICWG) in 2003 investigating the insurance
problems being faced by voluntary and community sector organisations:
Contact us
For general queries contact Stephen Bourne
(Home Office Active Community Directorate):
For queries regarding this
consultation contact Geraldine Lilley (Home Office
Consultations Co-ordinator):
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