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Can charity-run children's services keep up their good work when secure, long-term funding is denied? Simon Vevers reports The Government wants voluntary sector organisations to play a central role in helping to deliver the Every Child Matters agenda by working closely with children's trusts. Their role is flagged up, too, in the Action Plan for the ten-year childcare strategy, and the DfES wants them engaged in the extended schools and children's centres programmes.