Battle to run local infrastructure

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 8 October 2008

Voluntary sector organisations across Leicestershire have been forced to battle it out for a £1m contract to provide a county-wide infrastructure service because they were unable to agree on how it should be provided.

Leicestershire County Council decided to streamline infrastructure funding for the sector, totalling £1.4m, and hoped local organisations would be able to agree on how a countywide service would work. The funding comes from district and county councils and the local primary care trust. But after more than two years of...

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