Economic Development
Right across the public sector, senior executives and officials are being forced to make cuts to their expenditure. Services are being stopped, others severely re-modelled, some rationed and others re-designed. Inevitably, people and communities – often the most disadvantaged – are being adversely hit by these cuts and changes. Long term and wholesale damage is being inflicted on communities, individuals and on society itself.
LankellyChase has launched the first thoroughgoing profile of severe and multiple disadvantage in England. It shouldn’t be news to many that people experiencing severe social harms such as homelessness, offending or drug misuse mostly face a much wider set of problems. And yet, until recently, it has been remarkably difficult for the homeless, offending or drug misuse systems, both statutory and voluntary, to acknowledge the degree of overlap between their ‘populations’.
