ippr north director Ed Cox delivers speech on challenges and changing policies for the third sector

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In the speech - Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Challenges and Changing Policies for the Third Sector - Ed argues that community involvement, engagement and empowerment are now part of the mainstream debate about the future of British politics and public service reform but that two major challenges face the voluntary sector in the North West today: firstly, public sector spending constraint and the threat to the financial sustainability of the third sector; and secondly, the new policy context - not least the focus on the Big Society.