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Article: A voluntary finance initiative: Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, says the voluntary sector should be given more opportunities to improve public services, and suggests that a kind of voluntary finance initiative could give them that chance.(Opinion)(Column)
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- November 1, 2003
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ACEVO has recently published an important new book Replacing the State?--The case for third sector public service delivery which argues a much bigger role for the third sector in delivering public services. Many of the services that now form an integral part of the statutory sector began in the charitable sector. The philanthropists of the 18th and 19th centuries drove social change and paved the way for tackling illiteracy, poverty and ill health. More recently, and almost unnoticed, not-for-profit organisations have steadily increased their share of public service delivery. Local authorities, central government and government agencies are not outsourcing an increasing ...