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How the Tories intend to make the third sector the 'first sector'

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector, 4 June 2008

David Cameron has pledged that a Conservative government would look to the voluntary sector "as the first sector" and would get behind it rather than get in its way.

The pledge comes in the foreword of A Stronger Society: Voluntary Action in the 21st Century , the party's first comprehensive list of policies for the sector, which was launched yesterday ( Third Sector Online , 3 June ). "The time has come for us to think of the voluntary...

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