The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has charged a consortium of voluntary and community organisations with increasing the effectiveness of the sector, for example by showing them how to bid for contracts, and developing training for staff.
The group will be chaired by Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, and consists of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, Parenting UK, the Family Welfare Association, and children's charity NCH. It will be funded until March 2008.
Ennals said: "Lots of organisations will be funded to do bits of work, find out what is effective, and disseminate it." He said current voluntary sector involvement in children's trusts is varied: "Some parts of the voluntary and community sector don't understand how to do it, and sometimes the local authority doesn't understand the voluntary and community sector."
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