‘Are you being served?’
Debbie Lee Chan, Research Director
8 March 2012
In our latest Big Society blog, Debbie Lee Chan reflects on how best to measure perceptions of social integration and community cohesion.
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Addressing public concerns on immigration requires looking beyond the numbers
Tom Frere-Smith, Senior Research Executive
25 October 2011
What groups does the word 'immigrant' bring to mind? Tom Frere-Smith analyses our recent poll for the Migration Observatory.
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Beyond Turnout: The Police and Crime Commissioner elections
Rachel Worsley, Associate Director
14 November 2012
Associate Director, Rachel Worsley, discusses the challenges awaiting the new local Police and Crime Commissioners as they bed into their newly created roles.
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Big Society & the Budget
James Stannard, Senior Research Executive
11 April 2011
James Stannard analyses the budget and how it may affect Big Society organisations.
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Big Society and the Bigger Picture
Anna Beckett, Research Director
29 November 2010
This week, having come back from holiday, I’ve been thinking about how big (or not) UK society already is, and how we compare to other countries around the world.
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Big Society and the Co-operative Council
John Kennedy, Associate Director
15 February 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011 saw the official launch of Lambeth Council's initiative "Co-operative Council" - a new way of power sharing between citizens and the state.
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Big Society Blog: Supporting the development of Big Society in new Localism?
Kirstin Couper, Associate Director
22 December 2010
Empowering local communities to shape local areas has been a goal of central government for the past decade, for some essential to the success of Big Society, and so it was unsurprising to read about it in the new the Localism Bill.
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Big Society: the devil is in the detail
Anna Beckett, Research Director
21 October 2010
Yesterday George Osborne confirmed that key aspects of the Big Society (community organisers and National Citizen Service pilots) will definitely receive funding. This blog will explore reactions to the Big Society, along with providing analysis and insight, based on our public opinion data.
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Big Society: what of the new localism bill?
Victoria Harkness, Head of Local Government Research
15 December 2010
We’ve been waiting with bated breath for the new Localism Bill, finally published on Monday, 13 December. Not a lot of surprises in there – we’ve known for some time of the desire of Eric Pickles and co. to “fundamentally shake up the balance of power in this country”.
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Blame games on cutbacks
Victoria Harkness, Head of Local Government Research
11 February 2013
The coalition, rather than councils, is getting the blame for local government cuts. What does this tell us about the mood music amongst voters asks Research Director, Victoria Harkness?
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