Official contact but limited trust in the third sector
25th March 2008, 11:24 am
Local government body the Improvement and Development Agency has published research showing that, while there is a lot of superficial contact between local authority commissioners and third sector organisations, there is a serious lack of confidence in the latter’s ability to deliver so that they are less likely to be awarded large-scale public sector contracts.
Report is pdf download, 375kb, http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8024335, or read Society Guardian news item at http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/27/voluntarysector