Benefits Dependency in Liverpool and Merseyside »

Cuts in welfare spending look inevitable whoever wins the next Election. Neither Government nor Opposition, however, has spelt out a vision of what comes after the ‘Welfare State’.  A ‘welfare society’ – in which public agencies act more often as catalysts and enablers rather than, automatically, as providers of state dole – might be an [...]

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Birmingham Resident University is Chamberlain Forum’s shared and peer learning programme for the resident experts in Birmingham’s neighbourhoods – the people that live and work there.  Our aim is to get 1000 people involved in learning and researching how to make neighbourhoods better places to live in Birmingham, England.  The programme is supported by BeBirmingham [...]

Why Co-Production Isn’t What They’ll Say It Is »

Co-production is a really important idea – it’s something that could transform the way neighbourhoods look and feel; it could make sense out of a lot the things about society that don’t make sense to people now.  NESTA (which is a research body set up with Lottery money) yesterday launched The Challenge of Co-Production, a [...]

What the World Wanted to Talk About – Twitter Trends 09 »

Social networking and microblogging service Twitter has shared information on the top trends of 2009 – what the world has been twittering about.  In between the informal, indecipherable and the downright inane, here’s what folks have been discussing over the last 12 months (thanks to Twitter for producing the graphic):

The striking thing is not that [...]

On Benefits in Manchester »

Cuts in welfare spending look inevitable whoever wins the next Election. Neither Government nor Opposition, however, has spelt out a vision of what comes after the ‘Welfare State’.  A ‘welfare society’ – in which public agencies act more often as catalysts and enablers rather than, automatically, as providers of state dole – might be an [...]