Being homeless in the countryside – an invisible issue?
Having nowhere stable to live (a home) can affect a person’s ability to live, work, enjoy and get on in life. Finding yourself with very little money, where every day is a struggle, can be seen as something that happens to someone else. Yet in 2015/2016 some 6,270 households were homeless in rural Local Authorities, […]
What future for adult education in rural communities?
Back in July 2016, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adult Education published a report it had commissioned from the University of Warwick into the needs of adult learners. The research highlighted learning taking place in education and training institutions (online and offline), the workplace (on and off-site) and in community settings; suggesting this diversity plays […]
A (renewed) policy focus on island communities in the UK…?
While islands are areas of land surrounded by water, many are little more than barren rock with few plants on them and others are amongst the most crowded places on Earth. The largest British island is Great Britain which is the ninth-largest and third most populated island in the world. There are also some 32 […]
The commercialisation of (rural) government services…?
The money that Government spends on public goods and services can be broken down and understood in different ways: from total managed expenditure (TME) to departmental expenditure limits (DEL); and from annually managed expenditure (AME) to resource spending and capital spending. Collectively, total spending, at all levels of Government in the UK is estimated to […]
Not another consultation…involving rural communities in policy making and service delivery
Many rural communities feel “stuck in the middle” – schools, health centres, social care, leisure and so on aren’t quite delivering what they want but they’re not quite sure what to do about it. Some residents feel this has resulted in things being done ‘to them’ rather than ‘with them’ or ‘for them’. And yet […]
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