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The government needs a strategy for growth – why?

I have just watched this Simon Sinek lecture on TEDx for the second time. The lecture is about inspirational leadership – and he keeps reiterating a key point ‘…if you don’t know why you do what you do how do you expect others to buy in to what you do…’.

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It’s what you know that counts in the information age

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Size isn’t an excuse for not reporting your impact

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A permanent home for temporary initiatives

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Varying unemployment across UK cities shows we’re Europe in a microcosm

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Getting the measure of social value

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Welfare reform: taking benefits from addicts

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Beecroft report: cutting red tape or delivering more red herrings?

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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’.