ABSTRACT
The previous chapter observed that, aside from the long-established legal and fiscal framework for charities, voluntary sector policy in Britain has traditionally been constituted almost entirely as the sum of its ‘vertical’ parts at the ‘industry’ level. However, in the second half of the 1990s and the first years of the twentyfirst century, moves to alter that situation are taking shape. Attempts to seriously foster a ‘horizontal’ framework to operate over and above the legal system, on the one hand, and the myriad of inherited vertical structures and relationships, on the other, are beginning to evolve.
