In recent years there has been no shortage of reports about how bad austerity is and how it is affecting the poorest the most. However, while much of this is well meaning, it is short on what we need to do differently.
Local communities need ownership of ‘wicked’ problems
Policy problems in an era of austerity can appear to be stacked against local practitioners. Increasingly faced with a series of targets or ‘nudges’ from above, practitioners with limited resources are under pressure to do more-for-less.
