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Enabling and Sustaining: an update

Since the report on ‘Enabling and Sustaining Participation’ was written, we have a new Government with a central policy initiative – the Big Society – that seeks to promote civic engagement and volunteering. 

While the focus is primarily on local forms of involvement, and the responsibility for supporting and enabling the Big Society will fall on local government and voluntary organisations...

 

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