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The coalition’s policy of forced labour for the unemployed is manifestly...
In one of the most sweeping welfare reforms in a generation, Work and Pensions secretary, Iain Duncan-Smith recently announced that the long-term unemployed would be forced to perform menial work in...
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There is no crisis of civic participation: the Big Society risks undermining...
David Cameron’s Big Society idea is ambitious but its implications are far from straightforward. David Lewis argues that the government’s attempt to reshape relationships between citizens, state, and...
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‘Big Society’ volunteering in long term care must not substitute for skilled...
Volunteer workers could transform the long-term care sector. However, Shereen Hussein emphasizes that a greater understanding of the strengths and weakness of a voluntary workforce is needed in order...
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Book Review: Enterprising Care? Unpaid Voluntary Action in the 21st Century...
Many voluntary organisations now face having to take up the provision of some public services as government funding shrinks, and are also under considerable pressure to become more enterprising. Chris...
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