Big society tzar to cut his voluntary hours as it’s all a bit much and he can’t have a life too
Oh dear!
The Big Society was the answer to all our problems in the UK, cut local services and encourage folks to step into the breech as volunteers. That way we’ll all work for the services we really want.
Unfortunately it doesn’t really seem to work. Not only are many of the roles that need to be filled skilled roles but having a surplus of time is not that common as the Big Society Tsar appointed by the ConDem government is discovering.
It looked like a PR win to have Lord Wei fill the role of leading and inspiring us all to volunteer to be a volunteer himself. Unfortunately all that volunteering is a bit much for him and he’s going to cut back his hours at the job.
Is this going to be a pattern that repeats itself throughout our Big Society?
