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Power to the people: evidencing true social value

By creating ‘off-the-shelf’ solutions we have inadvertently lost sight of the need for regular time ...

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Local ‘super hubs’ proposed to support families

We are calling on all the main political parties to support Children and Family and ...

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The price of not paying a living wage

Right now it feels as if human decency is on a zero hours contract. There ...

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Local government needs to address low pay

Addressing low pay is part of the place leadership role of local government, and the ...

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Q & A with Tony Stacey: Forging an alternative narrative about social housing

Since setting up in 2008, Placeshapers has become a network of more than 100 housing ...

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Local economic policy must get social

National economic policy is in the grip of a narrow and at times sacrosanct neo-liberal ...

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Rethinking welfare for Scotland: fair, personal and simple

Last year I was asked by the Scottish government to chair an independent expert group ...

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Support for those who need it most? Not if the local welfare provision grant is abolished

Residents affected by the abolition of the local welfare provision grant are the same residents ...

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How to build a new welfare society

In the third in a series of essays on Poverty in the UK, commissioned by ...

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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 ...