B.
Chilen Fund. The Home Office would also be represented.
Note: The membership is designed to keep the Committee as small as possible
and to facilitate decision making. It is not intended to rule out, however, the possibility of individuals or organisations not normally on the Committee attending for particular purposes.
4.
It is proposed that the Executive Co-ordinating Committee would meet
regularly at fairly frequent intervals - perhaps weekly or fortnightly.
The Secretariat
Its
5. The central secretariat would be accountable to the Executive Co-ordinating
Committee, which it would service and whose decisions it would carry out.
precise size and composition would be determined in the light of experience; for
immediate purposes, however, it is envisaged that it would be headed by an
experienced administrator at about Civil Service Principal level assisted by two
other administrators (about Civil Service HEO level). In support, there would
be 3-4 clerical and secretarial staff making initially a total Secretariat
G
staff of about 7.
The Advisory Committee
6. It is proposed that the title of the Committee should be the Advisory
Committee on the Reception and Resettlement of Refugees from Vietnam. Its terms
of reference would be "to advise the Executive Co-ordinating
on general
matters affecting the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese refugees".
functions would be wholly advisory and the Executive Co-ordinating Committee
would not be accountable to it. At the same time, it is envisaged that this
body should provide a forum in which Government Departments, statutory agencies
and other bodies with an active interest in the reception and resettlement
programme can be kept in touch with progress and in which they can express
views on the nature of their contribution. The possible membership of the
Committee might include the major voluntary bodies such as the WRVS and the
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