In the correspondence, DfE officials warn all organisations receiving funding from the Children, Young People and Families Grant to think carefully about how they spend government money.
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DfE bans charities from publicising their work, leaked letter reveals
A letter leaked to CYP Now has revealed the Department for Education (DfE) is ordering charities delivering government-funded programmes to stop publicising their work with immediate effect in an apparent bid to save on spending.
"All activities which relate to policies that are no longer the priority of the current government should be referred immediately to your link worker," the letter states.
It goes on to order a freeze on all advertising and marketing of programmes funded through the grant, banning any spending on merchandise, and calling for conferences and events to be carefully considered and publications and briefings to be kept to a minimum. In addition, use of the old Department for Children, Schools and Families logo has been banned, while use of the new DfE logo will also be restricted. Website development should also be "carefully assessed", according to the letter.
Overall, more than 250 organisations have benefited from around £134m in funding from the grant since 2006. It pays for programmes such as Direct Short Breaks for disabled children, run by charity Kids, and information and support for lone parents run by Gingerbread. It also funds strategic grants to sustain and support the childcare sector through organisations including the National Childminding Association and the Daycare Trust.
The letter also said the future of the grant is "still under consideration". "As soon as we are in a position to provide clarity to you, we will, of course, make a formal announcement," it added.
A spokesman for an organisation that receives funding through the grant, who wished to remain anonymous, expressed outrage at the wording of the letter.
"The part about the ‘formal announcement’ does not offer much hope for any consultation over future funding," he said. "We’re being told to bury our heads in the sand and not to publicise the work we are doing. It’s hideous."
Posted Comments
Susan Atkins - 3 August 2010
So how much do we really save by banning all the logos ? Ah - I think we don't save anything - in fact I think we are going to be spending quite a lot - redesigning logos - redesigning websites - jettisoning all the stationery that has the 'banned' logo - and those stress balls and other merchandise - changing all the signs on buildings . . . . and maybe we should ban 'Wizard of Oz' too after all Somewhere the Rainbow's over .
Charlotte Peters Rock - 30 July 2010
It is not only teh Government that is 'picking on disability and the disadvantaged', but the overseeing agencies and those tasked andfunded to help such people.
Disabled chidlren are being refused their legal right ot education because SEN Statements are not being adequately revised by Local Authority SEN Departments. No-one is adequately overseeing that rotten treatment or insisting that it is put right, because of the deliberate loopholes left by Government and exploited by Social Care Directors. Where loopholes are not being walked through, the large mount of legislation is just being ignored. Who is to insist that it is complied with? Nobody.
There is also a serious problem in respect of disabled children in that they are deliberately not being assessed for their personal needs for school transport, nor is transport being supplied. What is that supposed to do for their education, or their parents/carers full time work prospects \(to school by 9am - back school to take them home by 3pm - when can gainful employment be undertaken?)
Also there is a great disparity between the well-trumpeted help which disabled children have feely available, and the actuality - or suitability - of such help.
And now we have the biggest money-waster of all, the Government, using its blunt instrument \(cosh) to tell charities how not to run their own affairs? Priceless!
Whose name is on the bottom of these letters? We should be told.
And as for which logo to use: people who are looking desperately for help, couldn't care less about logos. They are a vast waste of our money.
David Chadwick - 30 July 2010
So much for 'rolling back the state' and how else are vulnerable people supposed to know what services are available to them.
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