Housing associations could get a share of the nine figure sum the government is releasing for community projects through its Big Society Bank. The prime minister envisages the charity sector - of which housing associations are part - will increasingly deliver public services in the ‘big society’. Bill Payne, chief executive of Metropolitan Housing Partnership, warned aspects of the ‘big society’ plan needed scrutiny. Any expansion of the voluntary sector into public service provision needs to be monitored properly, he said. ‘We have a statutory and legal responsibility for looking after vulnerable people and I am nervous about care and support for them being replaced by volunteers’, he said. Read more on Inside Housing.
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