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I like grappling with contemporary place ailments: no jobs, derelict site or dying high street.  However, I am often tired of the standard prescriptions.  In many instances, I know that the new investment strategy, or town centre revitalization will either not work, be temporary or have only partial success.  Increasingly, I know that many of the accepted prescriptions are old hat, in the face of economic turbulence and environmental change.

For a process which is designed to reduce bureaucracy, the language of the reform of the UK’s welfare system is extraordinarily complex. From work capability assessment to personal independence payment to employment and support allowance; as practitioners we are needing to learn a whole host of new intricacies and terminology around welfare.