NCVO welcomes NAO report on statutory funding
Howard Lake | 28 June 2005 | News
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has welcomed the National Audit Office’s (NAO) report on the funding relationship between government and the voluntary and community sector.
Stuart Etherington Chief Executive of NCVO said: “NCVO welcomes the robust recommendations to government that the NAO has made in their report, ‘Working with the Third Sector’.
“There have been some encouraging signs of progress in funding relationships between the Government and the voluntary and community sector. However, in order to achieve real change, full implementation at all levels of Government is required, and there needs to be action on the part of the voluntary and community sector if the 2002 cross-cutting review recommendations are to be fully implemented.”
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The NAO’s report included input from NCVO which the NAO had commissioned to research the experience and impact of government funding practices on the voluntary and community sector. The research has informed the NAO’s report, Working with the Third Sector, and has also been used for a parallel report published by today NCVO – ‘Shared aspirations: the role of the voluntary and community sector in improving the funding relationship with government.’
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