It seems that the voluntary and community sector is sick of regulation.
That's the finding of the Better Regulation Task Force in its report, Better Regulation for Civil Society. 'Better could be achieved with less,' reckons Sir David Arculus, task force chair.
Excessive administration, unwieldy structures, too many rules and regulations.... we've heard it all before. This is the eternal lament of small business. But is it really the main problem confronting the 16 million activists in the community and voluntary sector, all those people who operate in the spaces left open by the state and private sector?
Read deeper into the report and you'll see an important distinction between this familiar inventory of grumbles, and what the activists experience as their greatest burden. It isn't regulation as such, it's the 'quasi-regulation' of the funding system.
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