The welfare reforms are designed to ‘make work pay’ by streamlining the system. But the government may have oversimplified the challenge, warns Gareth Brown
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Can the government’s ‘radical’ welfare reforms succeed where others have failed? Matthew Jackson discovers alternative ideas in Bristol and Gareth Brown pores over the detail of the white paper
Why can some areas pull themselves up while others remain rooted in poverty? Katie Schmuecker provides some clues
After overcoming scepticism and beginning to take root, can participatory budgeting survive cutbacks and become a potent symbol of localism? Clare Goff reports
Soaring unemployment and welfare cuts led to riots in the 1980s. Has a quarter of a century of regeneration made us more resilient to such shocks? Clare Goff visits
the scene of a notorious flashpoint to find out
On one London estate communities built up over generations are being broken up to make way for an approach to regeneration that may not actually work. Clare Goff reports
