Almost every day now, the CYP Now website updates readers with news of yet another council announcing plans to cut all remaining youth services or swathes of its children’s centres. Have you noticed how often the reported plan is to “hope” the voluntary sector will step into the breach left by such withdrawals? But with so many long-established and high profile charity closures of late, surely no one can hope to take charities’ survival for granted.
Reliance on donations and volunteers are expected – or hoped – to replace taxpayer funds. However, councils should not assume their local charities are at all sustainable on their own terms. They are certainly persistent, adaptable, resourceful and resilient whenever they can be.
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