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Tuesday Apr 18, 2006
Capacity Builders
This month The Government handed over responsibility for ChangeUp (its policy for the basic architecture of support for the voluntary and community sector) to an 'arm's-length agency', Capacity Builders.
According to reports it will be undertaking an open-ended review of the six 'national hubs of expertise' set up as part of the ChangeUp process.
Simon Hebditch, chief executive of Capacity Builders, said the review in the summer would examine the best ways of providing guidance to groups at a local level. "It could be one agency or devolved out regionally and locally," he said. "Equally, you might say that, with a bit of tweaking, the national hubs are the right way of doing things. I don't know the answer to these questions - it will be an open review."
Third Sector has a debate this week about whether hubs are the best way to build sector capacity. But surely, with only a few weeks gone since the first hubs conference, and most people still getting used to how the new system works, it must be too soon for any major changes.
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