In 1957, the then Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan said that Britons ‘had never had it so good’. Fifty years on, some Britons have never had it so bad!
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.
