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Housing

Fifteen different organisations – housing campaign groups and think-tanks – have sent a letter to the Housing Secretary James Brokenshire (pictured above) Read More...

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School exclusions

The Department of Education published figures over the summer which show a 15% rise in the number of pupils expelled from state schools between Read More...

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Youth employment

The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) – established by the Government in 2014 to help students move more smoothly into working Read More...

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Disability and exclusion

The charity Scope published a survey of 2,000 working-age disabled adults, asking them about their sense of exclusion from society. The results are disturbing. Read More...

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Probation

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a consultation document which describes the changes that they want to make to the probation service. Read More...

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Toxic charities

Research by Populus conducted on behalf of the communications company Kin&Co into the charity sector found that 37% of respondents said Read More...

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Big Society 2.0

The Government published its Civil Society Strategy – the first in 15 years, it claimed – which “proposes significant reforms across the Read More...

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Rough sleeping

Saying he would make homelessness a “thing of the past” the Housing Secretary James Brokenshire published in August the Government’s Read More...

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Welsh charity

Charitable income per capita in Wales is approximately half that of English charities - £386 compared to £767 according to the Wales Council for Voluntary Read More...

Interview: Dave Wylie

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Bootstrap Enterprises is an east Lancashire-based not for profit business, a community enterprise that for more than Read More...

July 13, 2018

Interview

Interview: Kirsty McHugh

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Kirsty McHugh has been CEO of the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) since 2010. She has an Read More...

July 13, 2018

Interview

Transforming Rehabilitation: Yvonne Thomas

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Purple Futures is a partnership between third sector organisations 3SC, P3, and Shelter and its leading partner Interserve. Read More...

June 1, 2018

Interview

Andy Schofield sits on the Executive Committee of 3SC, but he also runs Cocreate, which has a Partnership agreement with 3SC, providing services relating to impact. According to Schofield Read More...

April 26, 2018

Interview

Why Join 3SC?

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An interview with Joanne Cholerton, CEO. The heart of 3SC’s work is building third sector consortia – like-minded organisations operating together to get and deliver on contracts from the public sector. This is no mere business – it’s a business that has the vision of creating a greater amount of social impact Read More...

March 22, 2018

Interview