Good Local Economics

Can the Big Society cut it in an age of austerity?

According to minister for civil society, Nick Hurd, the Big Society is now at “delivery stage”. However, far from Whitehall, in local communities in Haringey and Birmingham research by the New Economics Foundation (nef) with local people has shown that tensions are emerging between the Big Society and the cuts. Indeed, there is fairly widespread confirmation of the fear that the new austerity measures will make realising the best of the Big Society agenda practically unworkable.

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Stripping away the spin about Big Society Capital

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Book review: Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

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A community development approach to neighbourhood improvement

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Loneliness and isolation: stark meaning in so little words

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Divide and rule

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Space to share

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The wellbeing barometer

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The emperor’s discarded clothes – and the work programme

I have wondered whether my dislike for payments by results (PbR) stems from the fact that it makes life hard for the voluntary and community sector, that my dislike is a simple response from gut instinct when the political rhetoric of PbR is so compelling, so simple; how could I be against it – no results, no money – the state saves!