General Article Community as an antidote to ‘Broken Britain’

Topic Selected: Being an Active Citizen Book Volume: 453

In London’s poorest boroughs, there is increasingly a sense that public services can no longer be relied on. People look instead to their local community for support. Shani Orgad, Divya Srivastava and Diana Olaleye offer three policy proposals for harnessing the power and value of communities.

By Shani Orgad, Divya Srivastava and Diana Olaleye

We’re not in the Dickensian times and yet it feels like we actually are!’ Cynthia, a resident in one of London’s most socioeconomically deprived boroug...

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