The most vulnerable are making the largest contribution to the public expenditure cuts
February 23, 2015
By Bruce Stafford Shortly after the Coalition Government was formed it introduced an Emergence Budget, and since then it has held 5 Budgets and 5 Autumn Statements. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has used these to announce a series of cuts to public expenditure. These announcements have affected a number of public services, notably social …
What is the impact of austerity on individual attitudes and ‘lived experience’?
February 16, 2015
By Ruth Read On 16 January 2015 the Social Policy Association ran a workshop at the University of Leeds entitled “Austerity, Welfare and Citizenship”. The workshop highlighted some complex, troublesome and neglected aspects of the austerity story. Ruth Patrick described findings from her qualitative research tracking 15 claimants from three groups (young, lone parents, disabled …
Welcome to the ‘Policy @ Nottingham’ blog!
Today is our first outing onto the web as a group. We are a collection of social scientists in various guises: lecturers, professors, PhD students, research fellows of all ages and from across the globe. We are based in the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (IcPSP) in the School of Sociology and Social …
