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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

Paull

Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • Arran said:

    [quote]A single centralised organisation, with local branches, can offer the same services much more consistently, and over a much wider area, than any number of well-meaning but isolated and independent smaller orgnisations.[/quote]

    I can see your point, but the NAS is clearly not fit for purpose. The problem with a single centralised organisation is that it will become corrupt and moribund due to lack of competition and driven by the whims and prejudices of whoever is in charge.

    A single centralised organisation doesn't have to mean one single centralised organisation.

    So competition can still exist within that model.

    But, the point of my post is that if you have lots of entirely independant local organisations you have a post-code lottery - if you're lucky enough to live in the right area you get fantastic support, if not you don't.

    And then there is the duplication of effort and resources.

    It's also more efficient to have local branches linked to a central hub that can handle shared tasks and resources.

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  • Arran said:

    [quote]A single centralised organisation, with local branches, can offer the same services much more consistently, and over a much wider area, than any number of well-meaning but isolated and independent smaller orgnisations.[/quote]

    I can see your point, but the NAS is clearly not fit for purpose. The problem with a single centralised organisation is that it will become corrupt and moribund due to lack of competition and driven by the whims and prejudices of whoever is in charge.

    A single centralised organisation doesn't have to mean one single centralised organisation.

    So competition can still exist within that model.

    But, the point of my post is that if you have lots of entirely independant local organisations you have a post-code lottery - if you're lucky enough to live in the right area you get fantastic support, if not you don't.

    And then there is the duplication of effort and resources.

    It's also more efficient to have local branches linked to a central hub that can handle shared tasks and resources.

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