11/29/2021
What sees as fundamental to creating success stories in civil society is accepting that local context is incredibly important and national scaling of solutions works in very few instances. We must concentrate on how to disseminate effective solutions and get new practices adopted – something integral to the work of the Education Endowment Fund as it battles to break the link between family income and educational achievement. Embracing co-production is essential to success not least because the whole sector is currently operating in recession/ but conditions. James is extremely sympathetic to all those who are trying to run Charity organisations: “It is a pretty harsh environment and it is wearing on people working in this space.” Decision makers and those setting the agenda must not lose sight of this as it is unlikely pressures on resources will be eased any time soon.
