I will not be surprised when it’s found the government strategically used the charity sector to deliver care the government was obliged to provide to ensure they could continue raising TD salaries at the expense of workers.
Pretty sure that HSE do not count staff working for charities in their headcount numbers. The spirit of most workplace regulations indicates that people doing the same job for the same employer should enjoy the same wages and benefits. But yet we have the government outsourcing this work to charities so they don’t have to employ these workers directly. 🤔
Why can’t the state provide the services instead of funding charities to provide the service? Seems to be the elephant in the room of the article.
The state’s reliance on Charity to pick up the gaps in a lot of health, poverty and other social care supports including housing needs to be addressed.
That it may come about via the collapse of those services and to the detriment of service users is however, not the way to do it.
Government needs to address the blue whale in the room regarding the amount of services devolved onto charities must be addressed and the funding model reassessed to ensure that where charities offer services that Government relies on? That model must end. Either via the Government guaranteeing funding commensurate with services offered and societal need along with bringing such organisations within the payroll and funding of Public service.
Use the opportunity to address the duplication of charities covering same sections and reduce the waste of resources due to fragmentation and duplication.
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I will not be surprised when it’s found the government strategically used the charity sector to deliver care the government was obliged to provide to ensure they could continue raising TD salaries at the expense of workers.
Pretty sure that HSE do not count staff working for charities in their headcount numbers. The spirit of most workplace regulations indicates that people doing the same job for the same employer should enjoy the same wages and benefits. But yet we have the government outsourcing this work to charities so they don’t have to employ these workers directly. 🤔
Why can’t the state provide the services instead of funding charities to provide the service? Seems to be the elephant in the room of the article.
The state’s reliance on Charity to pick up the gaps in a lot of health, poverty and other social care supports including housing needs to be addressed.
That it may come about via the collapse of those services and to the detriment of service users is however, not the way to do it.
Government needs to address the blue whale in the room regarding the amount of services devolved onto charities must be addressed and the funding model reassessed to ensure that where charities offer services that Government relies on? That model must end. Either via the Government guaranteeing funding commensurate with services offered and societal need along with bringing such organisations within the payroll and funding of Public service.
Use the opportunity to address the duplication of charities covering same sections and reduce the waste of resources due to fragmentation and duplication.