Comments for MHP Perspective http://www.mhp-online.co.uk/perspective Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on BIG SOCIETY – whatever it is we need to be ready for it by sherwood http://www.mhp-online.co.uk/perspective/2010/08/big-society-whatever-it-is-we-need-to-be-ready-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-11 sherwood Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:52:05 +0000 http://www.mhp-online.co.uk/perspective/?p=368#comment-11 It is against Charitable Law to replace any paid staff with volunteers, as the head of a leading housing charity you know this full well, and any move to replace paid staff with volunteers should in my opinion be fought at the very top level of MHP. Big Society is about your staff taking and independent role within the organisation setting up their own departments and delivering a work package prescribed by you in conjunction with staff and your collective clients. It’s about your clients coming together and taking a more proactive approach within their neighbourhood and joining with officers to progress and evaluate services and projects. This is not about business as usual this is new business and a new approach, please do not confuse the issue or use it to streamline the organisation by reducing posts. The quality of your product is your strength your strength is monitored by your clients, without this collective approach you’re no longer an industry leader. It is against Charitable Law to replace any paid staff with volunteers, as the head of a leading housing charity you know this full well, and any move to replace paid staff with volunteers should in my opinion be fought at the very top level of MHP.

Big Society is about your staff taking and independent role within the organisation setting up their own departments and delivering a work package prescribed by you in conjunction with staff and your collective clients.

It’s about your clients coming together and taking a more proactive approach within their neighbourhood and joining with officers to progress and evaluate services and projects.

This is not about business as usual this is new business and a new approach, please do not confuse the issue or use it to streamline the organisation by reducing posts.

The quality of your product is your strength your strength is monitored by your clients, without this collective approach you’re no longer an industry leader.

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