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A few years ago you couldn’t move for publications, training and think pieces on full cost recovery. Now, I rarely seem to hear the words uttered and, on reflection, I think that in an age of austerity we have let the government ignore the concept and start to put price right at the heart of all commissioning processes. Read more »
Tag Archives: Voluntary Sector North West
Is the VCS the agency worker of the future?
The idea that small, even medium to large, local voluntary organisations will be able to hold a contract on the scale they are now being let is becoming impossible to imagine. And this isn’t confined to one area of delivery. In the last week alone, partners have highlighted this issue in regard to the Work Programme (around the size of sub-contracts), tenders relating supporting families with multiple issues and in the changing world of offender management. Read more »
We have to fund intelligently and not just chase the headlines
I, like
everyone else, was pleased to see the Government announce the Transition Fund -
you couldn’t possibly be against it could you? Of course, the size of the fund
does little to address the scale of cuts in the sector, but then it wasn’t
meant to fund more of the same. It was about helping organisations make
a change to how they went about their business and helping them increase
sustainability.
