What Are Charities For?
Have big charities lost their philanthropic purpose? Fran Abrams investigates.
Analysis · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Charities have been drawn into the world of outsourced service provision, with the state as their biggest customer and payment made on a results basis. It is a trend which is set to accelerate with government plans to hand over to charities much of the work currently done by the public sector.
But has the target driven world of providing such services as welfare to work support and rehabilitating offenders destroyed something of the traditional philanthropic nature of charities? Fran Abrams investigates.
Producer: Mukul Devichand.