The Third Sector Delivering Public Services: Developments, Innovations and Challenges
James Rees and David Mullins
Abstract
This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the third (or voluntary) sector role in the delivery of public services in the UK. It covers social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value; as well as the sector’s role in specific fields including employment, health and social care, housing and criminal justice. It is the first book to review developments over the New Labour and Coalition period which saw a sustained expansion of the scale and scope of third sector delivery. In this period, the sector was required to respond to new policy challenges such as pers ... More
This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the third (or voluntary) sector role in the delivery of public services in the UK. It covers social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value; as well as the sector’s role in specific fields including employment, health and social care, housing and criminal justice. It is the first book to review developments over the New Labour and Coalition period which saw a sustained expansion of the scale and scope of third sector delivery. In this period, the sector was required to respond to new policy challenges such as personalisation, market-based mechanisms of funding allocation and regulation, and an increased focus on rewarding outcomes (payment by results). Drawing on research at the ESRC-funded Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, the book also makes an analytical contribution in charting historical shifts in state, third sector, and market relationships, with a focus on the controversies associated with such shifts.
Keywords:
third sector,
social enterprise,
public services,
contracting,
capacity building,
volunteering
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447322399 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447322399.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
James Rees, editor
University of Birmingham
David Mullins, editor
University of Birmingham
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