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Public space could unlock Big Society’s potential

CLES’ new publication, launched today and supported by Groundwork UK, highlights the importance of public space and the crucial role it plays in stimulating social action and realising the coalition government’s vision for the Big Society.

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What if we built a Big Society around places?

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If multiculturalism has failed, where next for diversity policy?

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The great and the good

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A reminder of the past – or sign of the future?

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Big Society hot or cold?

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The voluntary sector must take its share of the blame

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Psst, got a LEP? Want one?

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Eric’s axe leaves local government with impossible decisions

I was born into local government and brought up to love it. Not its pomposity, ceremony or status but its capacity to change peoples lives.

It may seem strange even to those involved in providing local services that anyone could have a romantic attachment to this perplexing, eccentric sector but that’s the way it is.