Tens of thousands of people who became excited by the new government’s ‘Big Society’ plans to run the country on volunteer labour are this week unsure what exactly it is they are meant to be doing, who they should be signing up with, and when it is they will be able to take over the running of the country.
Posted: Sep 9th, 2010
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As part of his plans for a ‘Big Society’ Prime Minister David Cameron today revealed a timetable for the final handover of all essential services to charities and private organisations by 2014.
In a press conference statement he outlined plans for the final transition of power for key public services, describing the government’s eleven week campaign against crime, poverty and poor education as an ‘unsustainable drain on public spending’.
Posted: Jul 23rd, 2010
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Government plans for the ‘Big Society’ are to be spurred by efforts to bring the country together through grief with the unifying death of a major public figure.
Posted: Jul 20th, 2010
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