VCS Engage is a 3m Government funded initiative led by the National Children's Bureau in partnership with a consortium of national voluntary sector organisations. The programme has a regional structure based around the nine Government regions.
Chair of VCS Engage, Sally Whitaker, who is also deputy chief executive of the NCB, said, 'The overall aim of the programme is to strengthen the engagement of the voluntary and community sector to deliver services for children and young people within Every Child Matters.' It hopes to increase involvement with 'smaller, local agencies who could feel within the structure of children's trusts and the new ECM framework that they might be losing out', she said, and to link 'bigger national charities working with smaller providers'.
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