SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Voluntary sector | Government turns charities into multimillion-pound businesses: "Government turns charities into multimillion-pound businesses
· Voluntary sector 'becomes arm of big business'
· Contracting out leaves training groups booming
David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Monday July 3, 2006
The Guardian
The government is creating a new generation of multimillionaires and turning charities into multimillion-pound businesses by contracting out services provided by the state, a report commissioned by the Whitehall trade union the Public and Commercial Services union, reveals today.
The report, by Steve Davies, senior research fellow at Cardiff University school of social sciences, shows a swath of companies set up to provide training for disabled people, the unemployed on New Deal programmes, and young offenders are now multimillion-pound enterprises."
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