Sentences with phrase «many voluntary sector»

It was when I worked in management in the voluntary sector.

It is true that the resurgence of the voluntary sector's involvement has unleashed great energy and fostered some promising strategies for meeting social problems.

business, academia, civil society, charity, the voluntary sector, media and young people.

Our role as a trusted partner to the voluntary sector is really important to the charities and community groups we work with and we are excited to launch this new service with Tesco's support.»

That kind of work is often facilitated by the voluntary sector, and we need to ensure that that is maintained even in these straitened financial times.

Linked women's services work 3 days London — 27th — 29th November 2006 # 220 statutory / # 180 voluntary sector Learn the specific skills need to work in partner support services linked to a domestic violence perpetrator program.

We unify evidence, policy and practice by working collaboratively across a large network of organisations involving governments, public services, the voluntary sector and families.

Whilst it is highly commendable and reassuring that the UK healthcare system has made such progress with implementing the Baby Friendly standards, recent staff shortages in maternity services, cuts to health visiting services and de-commissioning of voluntary sector support undermine this success.

But there is currently no role or funding for local authorities or the voluntary sector to promote dialogue and integration.

T&G ACTS is the largest voluntary sector & social economy union in the United Kingdom.

Bell wrote: «There is a far wider group of non-Blobberati voices across the schools sector, higher education, industry and the voluntary sector, who offer an intelligent critique of where we are now.

To succeed, ministers in the Home Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government must work with the voluntary sector and businesses in three areas.

Third, the government must actively support local authorities and the voluntary sector to build strong communities at local level.

Instead, it should act as a gateway to access these services, administering new screening tools to determine the appropriate level of support to be provided in the private or voluntary sector.

The voluntary sector and businesses can play vital roles in this.

Chana now works in the voluntary sector, offering support to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.

Questions - drink - driving, lobbyists, charities Legislation - statute law (repeals) bill Legislation - crime and courts bill Short debate - voluntary sector and delivery of public services

First, over the next year, each Labour spending team will prepare a report on Public Service Reform and Re-Design setting out how we deliver better public services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public providers.

Its research found English charities with annual incomes of under # 100,000 now receive 3.5 % of total voluntary sector income, down from 5.4 % in 2006.

She added: «Because Eric Pickles and the government have chosen to hit councils with frontloaded cuts in the first year, far from liberating community groups, the voluntary sector and charities to do more, as the government promises, they may be so hampered they end up doing less.»

He pressed that prime contractors had been told: «You will not get any further if your contracts do not include absolutely clear links with the voluntary sector and subcontracts that... don't pass the risk on, but allow them to take an element share of the rewards that come».

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith added that prime contractors will have to assume most of the risk because «many voluntary sector organisations are simply not set up to take the risk element».

This comes as the government continues to say it wants the voluntary sector to run more of our public services.

«If the voluntary sector is forced out of the market then this will have a negative impact on patients and families and also the communities in which they live,» they said.

Under Labour, the voluntary sector delivered a third of the initiatives.

The government is crushing the independence of charities to get its way, a panel representing the voluntary sector has said.

Democratic problems have no problem with the private sector or voluntary sector being sub-contracted to deliver public services, but are strongly against individual vouchers / budgets in almost every area of welfare, except for areas of luxury or where the individual is in control of the demand factors for the services (adult education, luxurious top - ups for social care for the elderly).

The Coalition gets the lowest rating for progress on the charitable and voluntary sector.

The Centre for Social Justice attacks Coalition's record on family and voluntary sector, but praises progress on welfare and schools

While populist campaigners will inevitably emerge, the majority of PCCs will recognise that long - term success will require more harmonious relationships with other public and voluntary sector partners and that evidence - based, preventative policing is the key to re-election.

Hussain started out in public affairs working for Refugee Council and cemented his credentials as a top voluntary sector lobbyist when stepped up to his present post at the end of last year.

«What I found in the region was a dynamic group of voluntary sector refugee organisations as well as some excellent, yet under - resourced, counselling and mental health, BME and women's projects working hard to respond to the needs of refugee survivors.

In Birmingham, the closure of the largest Citizens Advice Bureau as a result of the huge frontloaded cuts to local government is a foretaste of the coming onslaught on the voluntary sector.

«The Government should be applauded for its willingness to resource the voluntary sector to supply the education and support which HMRC are no longer able to provide fully due to budgetary constraints.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed HMRC's announcement today of # 2 million a year of grants to be given over the next four years to voluntary sector bodies, so that they may provide support and advice to HMRC customers who need most help in complying with their tax obligations and claiming their correct entitlements

Mr Jones added: «We recognise the tremendous efforts made by the voluntary sector and want to see this continue, however the government must undertake a greater share of the funding for the care of terminally ill patients.»

As they stand, the proposals threaten to deprive charities of funding and contradict the government's intention to promote the voluntary sector.

If we match up councils authority by authority, we see that Liberal Democrat and Conservative authorities are protecting the front line, but under Labour authorities the front line is the first one to go, the voluntary sector is the first one to go and the most swingeing cuts are the first thing to happen.

A freelance advisor on planning, equalities and community development, he has held a range of senior roles in government, academia and the voluntary sector.

Her interests include health, social services, children's issues, local government and the voluntary sector.

Under the previous government charities came to rely more and more on taxpayers» money, to the extent that parts of the voluntary sector practically became another arm of the state.

With a maximum cut of 8.8 %, there is no reason for any council disproportionately to cut the voluntary sector.

It's funded by government (though it's long been seaching for private and voluntary sector money to replace it).

I hope that she will look at the examples of positive councils such as Reading, Thurrock, Lancaster, Ipswich, Watford, Stafford, Rugby, Redditch, Crawley and Wolverhampton - 10 councils that are either maintaining or increasing their support to the voluntary sector at this time.

Later, in reply to a complaint from Labour MP Mary Glindon about cuts to the voluntary sector in her local council, the minister Greg Clark delivered a roll call of Tory councils that are dealing with the situation without such cuts:

An accompanying community right to challenge will also allow community and voluntary sector groups, as well as parish councils and council employees, to bid to take over and improve local council services.

Nothing like the voluntary sector for being properly posh.

«95 % of the electorate do not want the private, voluntary sector, charitable or other organisations running schools.

«When the private and voluntary sectors and the pushy and the privileged have had their fill, they will walk away leaving segregated communities, social division, inequality and thousands of children and young people whose life chances have been sacrificed.

But voluntary sector insiders told Politics.co.uk «household names» like Oxfam, the Countryside Alliance and the League Against Cruel Sports would continue to be affected.