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The challenge of reform in an age of austerity

Regular readers will know that I have written before on the work we are leading in Salford on complex families, or, as the government now calls them, ‘troubled families’.

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Let’s plough the fields and scatter!

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The crisis in housing

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Whitehall rigidity and the failure of the Big Society ‘project’

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David Boyle: applying the ‘people principle’

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Is poverty out of control?

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Will the Portas Review help create living streets?

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Why I was won over by the Queen of Shops

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Reforms spell end of the road for community law centres

A Community Law Centre in a former pub in Anerley, south east London

One third of community law centres are at risk of closure at the very time that they are most needed. Matt Scott reveals the impact of marketisation on an essential public service

A new report by Goldsmiths College, the University of London and funded by the Leverhulme Trust has revealed that community law centres are experiencing pressures as a result of public service modernisation. As a consequence of increased marketisation of the service there has been: