"Charities have been drawn into the world of outsourced service provision, with the state as their biggest customer and payment made on a results basis. It is a trend which is set to accelerate with government plans to hand over to charities much of the work currently done by the public sector." Listen to BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme online, where TSRC Deputy Director John Mohan discusses this issues.
"Charities have been drawn into the world of outsourced service provision, with the state as their biggest customer and payment made on a results basis. It is a trend which is set to accelerate with government plans to hand over to charities much of the work currently done by the public sector. But has the target driven world of providing such services as welfare to work support and rehabilitating offenders destroyed something of the traditional philanthropic nature of charities? Fran Abrams investigates."
Listen to BBC Radio 4’s Analysis online, where TSRC Deputy Director John Mohan discusses this issue.
