Women's Voluntary Services and the Voluntary Sector
Women's Voluntary Services and the Voluntary Sector
This chapter returns to the antagonism between the WVS and other women's organizations, a relationship further embittered by an ill-conceived government attempt to force an amalgamation of WVS with the National Council of Social Services. The WVS survived because largely Lady Reading succeeded in convincing Whitehall that it could provide effective auxiliary services for the statutory authorities. Its hierarchical structure, which so offended leaders of established voluntary organizations, was crucial to its effectiveness as a handmaiden of the planning state: ‘an organized service with a proper chain of command’ as Labour's Home Secretary put it.
Keywords: Women's Voluntary Services, Britain, National Council of Social Services, voluntary organizations
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