The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone, not least local government. Many councils have struggled to cope with the fallout from the virus, while others, like Barking & Dagenham, have managed…
14 Oct, 2020
Civil Society
14 Jul, 2020
#BuildBackBetter: You know it makes sense, but how do you do it?
The article was originally published at Vulnerability 360. Throughout the lockdown, and now an extended lockdown, in our home city, Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of…
06 Jul, 2020
A national community support plan
Community resilience is a vital component of social and economic recovery. Communities themselves have risen to the occasion magnificently. But to enable them to sustain this high level of involvement…
13 May, 2020
Reasons for hope: why and how we can #BuildBackBetter
The crisis reveals much and will change more - for good or bad. Everything feels like it is now up for grabs. There is much pain and suffering and our…
26 Mar, 2020
Civil Society and COVID-19
The article was originally published by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. “Neighbourhoods are the cells which keep society whole. We are threatened with infections, from outside and from within; our powers…
20 Mar, 2020
Nine things I’ve noticed this week
The blog was originally published on Julia Unwin's personal website. We’ve known that a global pandemic would come for decades, and it’s been modelled and planned for time after time.…
23 Dec, 2019
How should civil society respond to the election result?
During this election, many things changed, if not the Prime Minster. A government of the Right, whose powers will soon be augmented by the transfer of powers from Europe, has…