Baby Boomers and The Big Society

Type

Book

Authors

Wally Harbert

ISBN 10

1908596929

ISBN 13

9781908596925

Tags

Volunteer Work, Sociology

Description

Increased numbers of active older people represent a powerful force for good in the UK which is at the bottom of the European league table for health and social wellbeing. Volunteering by older people is in danger from predators seeking to control it. As more public services are transferred to charities their volunteers are adopting the values of state services and losing their greatest attribute - independence. They are being nationalised. Volunteering should be liberating. It needs facilitators, not managers. No one has the right to colonise the social capital of a community without offering empowerment in return. - from Amzon

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