In A Fix? Welfare Cuts and Consumer Society »
Designer dresses; watching the football; or pizza, potato wedges and a litre of Coke – a treat can come in many forms, but the underlying value is the same. The secret of success in a consumer society is that there’s a price and a product for whatever you can afford: a £1000 Vivienne Westwood creation [...]
Cheaper Energy: Together »
With one in two families in some neighbourhoods struggling to pay fuel bills, Birmingham & Solihull Together promises cheaper bills by clubbing together. The scheme is open to anyone who lives in Birmingham or Solihull and – if you have your most recent gas and electric bills handy – it’s easy to check how much [...]
Coproduction, the Surface Economy and ‘Welfare Society’ »
We tend to think of coproduction in relation to public services. In the UK, in particular, recent interest in the potential of coproduction on the part of policy-makers and public service agencies is focused through the prism of public spending cuts and the government’s ‘Big Society’ idea. Big Society being a way of expressing the [...]
Why People Matter More Than ‘Defending Public Services’ »
The dust blown up by an election campaign tends to obscure a clear view of what government is really about. Or should be about. Take the locking horns of the two major UK parties over the NHS. Neither has successfully moved the debate along beyond who would transfuse more cash into State healthcare (or rather [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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