Tory government 'would change risk-aversion culture'

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 21 February 2008

Former shadow cabinet minister Oliver Letwin has said a Conservative government would change Whitehall's culture of risk aversion and loosen up contracting arrangements to "empower the sector to do what it is there to do more effectively".

Letwin, who chairs the Tories’ policy review, told the NCVO conference on Wednesday that rigid contracting arrangements between the Government and sector bodies risked turning them into agencies of government. He said the sector’s potential to “cure real needs government agencies will never spot, let alone cure” was being stifled....

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