'Hubs' will encourage volunteering in public services, says Neuberger

By Rosie Walker, Third Sector Online, 10 March 2008

Statutory agencies should establish 'volunteering hubs' to make the use of volunteers more mainstream, according to a report by Baroness Julia Neuberger.

Volunteering in the Public Services: Health and Social Care is the first in a series of reports by the Liberal Democrat peer on the role of volunteers and volunteering in public services. It examines the value of volunteering in the provision of health and social care, the problems it creates...

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