The children and young people\u2019s voluntary and community sector employs one in three of the total voluntary and community sector workforce and generates income in excess of \u00a31.5 billion a year, according to new research published today by NCVYS and the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO).<\/p>\n
Every Organisation Matters is the first ever mapping of the children and young people\u2019s voluntary and community sectors and was undertaken by a team from the University of Hull led by Professor Gary Craig as part of NCVYS and NCVCCO\u2019s Speaking Out project.<\/p>\n
Speaking at today’s launch Deputy Director of Strategy and Communications at the Office of the Third Sector, Juliet Mountford called the research ‘ground breaking’ and thanked the partners for providing an ‘excellent piece of research’. She also announced that Birmingham University will lead the new Third Sector Research Centre dedicated to analysing the impact of the sector’s activities.<\/p>\n
Janet Moore, Third Sector Team Leader at the Department for Children, Schools and Families also commended the work and expressed the government’s commitment to taking on board the research findings, to shape future thinking and policy making.<\/p>\n
Amongst the report\u2019s key findings are:<\/p>\n
The children and young people\u2019s voluntary and community sector employs over 160,000 people in England \u2013 as many as 1 in 3 of all those employed by voluntary and community organisations – and generates income in excess of \u00a31.5 billion a year.
\nSmall organisations, many of whom work with highly vulnerable children and young people, are under threat because of the government\u2019s shift towards commissioning services.
\nChildren aged 7-13 appear to be poorly provided for, with an emphasis on early years provision and a growing government agenda around services for young people leading to this transitional age group missing out.
\nEffective understanding of the children and young people\u2019s voluntary and community sector is currently hindered by poor quality data.
\nVoluntary and community sector organisations need to be doing more to measure the long-term impact of their work. <\/p>\n
The report calls on the government to invest in further research to better understand the changing nature of the children and young people\u2019s voluntary and community sector, to prioritise support for small organisations who often work with those most in need and to provide sustained investment in workforce development.<\/p>\n
The research team and representatives from the voluntary sector who attended the launch emphasised the importance of ‘valuing what is valuable above valuing what is measurable’.<\/p>\n
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