This is partly because experience suggests structural change has anegative impact on the voluntary sector, at least in the short-term, assome provision is decommissioned to redirect resources towards newobjectives. Funding is in any case insufficient for a smooth transition,intensifying the pressures on emerging children's trusts.
When youth offending teams were established, funding was withdrawn fromthe voluntary sector to help finance them. Months later some of theteams approached the same voluntary agencies to commission new services,but by then the capacity to deliver had been lost.
There are some fears that the same pattern may reoccur. Would thismatter?
I think it would, not only for the people who lost their jobs, but morebroadly if it led to high-quality services disappearing.
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