As part of the Cabinet Office, OTS leads work across government to support the environment for a thriving third sector (voluntary and community groups, social enterprises, charities, cooperatives and mutuals), enabling the sector to campaign for change, deliver public services, promote social enterprise and strengthen communities. The OTS was created at the centre of government in May 2006 in recognition of the increasingly important role the third sector plays in both society and the economy.

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The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), created in June 2007, aims to make this the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.For the first time, children, young people and their families have a voice at the heart of government. The Department’s role can be summed up as leading the whole network of people who work with or for children and young people. To do this, we put the needs and views of families, children and young people at the centre of everything we do.

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BITC inspires, engages, supports and challenges companies on responsible business, working through four areas: Marketplace, Workplace, Environment and Community. With more than 850 companies in membership, Business in the Community represents 1 in 5 of the UK private sector workforce and convenes a network of global partners.

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NPC is an organisation that enables charities and funders to do good, better. Our vision is to create a world in which charities and their funders are as effective as possible in changing people's lives and in tackling social problems.  For charities, this means measuring the results of their work, and using evidence to learn and improve, as well as to attract support. For funders, this means using evidence of charities' results to make funding decisions and to measure their own impact.

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The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) represents all the directors of adult social services in England and brings together the accumulated wisdom and understanding of the way services for adults are managed and financed as well as inputs from a widening responsibility for housing, leisure, library, culture and, in some case, arts and sports facilities.

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