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Home2020November

Month: November 2020

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Lessons from lockdown: valuing our voluntary and community sector

November 23, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Lessons from lockdown: valuing our voluntary and community sector

In an earlier blog on lessons from the lockdown period, we reflected on the incredible power of communities, and the necessity of resourcing them properly if we are to keep hold of the energy of […]

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‘Stay at home’: how poor housing adds to the misery of COVID-19 lockdown

November 16, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on ‘Stay at home’: how poor housing adds to the misery of COVID-19 lockdown

I noticed the participant’s voice was cracking and the presence of long silences after my questions. “I can sense you’re getting upset”, I said. “I think I’m just sharing my experience in terms of what […]

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Universal Credit: evidence and experience by Fran Bennett

November 9, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Universal Credit: evidence and experience by Fran Bennett

Universal Credit has dominated the social security landscape in the UK over the past ten years. Whether you see it as the answer to claimants’ prayers, or think it should be scrapped and replaced, for […]

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Challenging policy problems and what researchers can do about them by Raj Patel

November 2, 2020 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on Challenging policy problems and what researchers can do about them by Raj Patel

Many social policies can be difficult to formulate and implement well because they depend on a level of knowledge, mobilisation, governance and policy control that is rarely possible in real life. For more complex problems, […]

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