SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Local governments are willing to find ways to consolidate and share services if
it means saving their taxpayers money, but they don't want to take on another unfunded mandate.
Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is
means of
saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.