Leading with values: creating a safe organisational culture
Published in July 2018 This report is part of a cross-sector tiered project, led by ACEVO and NCVO covering leadership and culture respectively. This project was developed in response to the Charity Commission’s domestic charity safeguarding summit held in March 2018 following reports of harassment, abuse and exploitation in the charity sector. The report highlights three pillars of […]
Speaking frankly, Acting boldly
Charity campaigning is not a new phenomenon. Charities have been at the forefront of the movement for social change for hundreds of years; from the campaign to end slavery to the introduction of the smoking ban. Despite this charities have been repeatedly publicly criticised for ‘meddling in politics’. This report calls for charities reclaim ‘campaigning’, ‘advocacy’ and ‘lobbying’ as […]
Time for change: the challenge ahead
In October 2015 the Transforming Care programme published a national plan for services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism – Building the Right Support. This review welcomes the plan, and its commitment to reducing the number of inpatient beds by increasing the availability of community-based support. But such a step change will be challenging across the country, […]
Free society
This manifesto the result of a national member-driven conversation. It incorporated consultation with our members via surveys and direct conversations with members through our special interest groups and other forums. The manifesto contains 36 fully costed implementable policies designed to put the third sector at the forefront of a new political era.
Remaking the state
These are tough times, not only for the third sector, but for all who care about our public services. Too often services are commissioned based on price, rather than effectiveness. Too often cuts to services bite the hardest to reach with the most severity. This cannot go on. What we set out to do in […]
Winterbourne View: Time is Running Out
A six month progress report by the Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group.
Coming in from the Cold: Why We Need to Talk About Loneliness Among Our Young People
This report suggests that loneliness among the young, today, in our country is a real issue. Indeed in our urban spaces, where stimulus is rampant, loneliness actually approaches the status of pandemic. Focussing on our capital, this research explores the causes of loneliness and its impacts. It helps us understand the difference between being lonely and being alone. […]
Alliance contracting: building new collaborations to deliver better healthcare
The third sector is a pioneer in collaborative working. The number of third sector consortia has increased rapidly in the last two decades. It is time the health and social care system fully acknowledges this potential, introduces effective commissioning tools and allows the sector torealise its full potential within health and care. Alliance contracting may […]
Good with money: why charity investments matter
Investment is an important source of revenue for charities. Every year the active investment of charities’ reserves, and other assets, provides over £3.5bn of funding for third sector activities. However, as shown by the 2013 BBC Panorama documentary on charity investments, the otherwise productive process of investing in companies can pose a number of reputational […]
Winterbourne View: time for change
The Winterbourne View scandal, exposed by the Panorama programme, shocked the nation. It led to the Government pledge to move all people with learning disabilities and/or autism inappropriately placed in such institutions into community care by June this year. Not only has there been a failure to achieve that movement, there are still more people being admitted […]
The Red Book of the Voluntary Sector
Produced in collaboration with the Charities Aid Foundation, The Blue, Red and Yellow books of the Voluntary Sector contain a collection of essays from leading figures from across the political spectrum. Contributors from Ed Miliband MP and David (now Lord) Blunkett to Nick Hurd MP and Charlotte Leslie MP discussed the future of the charity […]
The Yellow Book of the Voluntary Sector
Produced in collaboration with the Charities Aid Foundation, The Blue, Red and Yellow books of the Voluntary Sector contain a collection of essays from leading figures from across the political spectrum. Contributors from Ed Miliband MP and David (now Lord) Blunkett to Nick Hurd MP and Charlotte Leslie MP discussed the future of the charity […]