Joyce Moseley, chief executive of Rainer, said while the line between the voluntary sector and public services could be seen as being blurred due to statutory funding, the big threat is the way that funding is given to voluntary organisations.
"What this has led to is contracts that focus on process and control of minute details rather than first doing the more difficult but more rewarding job of defining outcomes," she told delegates at the National Children and Adult Services conference in Bournemouth last week.
"For one recent tender we were required to provide so much evidence of policies and so on that we had to send seven boxes of paperwork. We had been delivering services for that authority for over 10 years."
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