The best course for New Deal voluntary sector and Environment Task Force placements will be for agencies providing these to be given support to make these paid six-month jobs , for instance, as part of regeneration funding. For those actively volunteering in this way, we believe an extended Gateway should be available, to allow greater opportunity to secure a New Deal placement likely to lead to sustainable, long term employment. Such volunteering should, of course, be able to count towards Millennium Volunteer awards. New Deal funding for youth volunteering agencies, to allow them to support unemployed volunteers, should be provided . Without capacity building funding, the voluntary sector will struggle with the extra demands placed on it by the Government's raised expectations of it.
All costs given are per placement.
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