Good Local Economics
Abolishing the social fund: when ‘local’ simply means ‘less’
What does the abolition of the social fund mean for local areas? Damon Gibbons finds out.
On 1st April the discretionary social fund, which provides support in the form of community care grants and crisis loans for some of our most vulnerable households, will be abolished and a £178m budget transferred from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to local areas to support the provision of new ‘local welfare schemes’.
The growth of enterprising community libraries
Locality has campaigned for a number of years to raise the profile of communities delivering library services, so we were delighted to convene the largest ever gathering of community libraries at the Whitechapel Idea Store earlier this week.
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