CHARITIES and the States need to work through a joined up model to plug gaps in aid provision.

Leading charity figures responded yesterday after the publication of a draft report looking at the island’s charitable sector and how resources could be used more effectively to tackle social problems.

It suggested that there needed to be greater coordination between the States, which the report claimed did not fund certain services because it knew charities would pick them up, and the voluntary sector.

Multiple Sclerosis Society Bailiwick branch chairman Peter Woodward (pictured) commended the ‘extensive’ report and said a new strategic model needed to be developed to enable government to consult more effectively with, and benefit from, the voluntary sector.

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