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Contracting for advice centres 'could close CABs'
By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 23 April 2008
Local authorities and the Legal Services Commission have failed to consider the long-term impact on the voluntary sector of contracting out community legal advice centres, according to the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
David Harker told Third Sector he was concerned that tendering instead of offering grants to existing organisations could close Citizens Advice Bureaux that didn't win contracts. Additional services offered by CABs, such as financial advice, would be lost, he added. "Strong local organisations take decades to build up," he said....
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