ABSTRACT
Recent changes to the regulatory environment for charities in England and Wales mirror the pattern described elsewhere in this volume, whereby the previous contractual relationships that were common between government and service-providing charities in the 1990s are slowly beginning to give way to more partnership-based relationships. These new partnerships, ideally based on mutual trust and confi dence, are being developed against a background of growth in a more relational form of governance for charities, and a number of regulatory instruments are being utilized to support this shift.
