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Essential Guide to Squeezed Britain
Yesterday, the independent think tank Resolution Foundation launched "Squeezed Britain", their annual report on the lives of the six million low to middle income household in the UK, those who are "too poor to thrive in private markets, and yet too rich to receive substantial state support."
The document sets out their current economic situation and assesses their future prospects. Backed up with original research and rigorous economic analysis, it...
Designing an alternative to custody - lessons
Since last June we ran an incredibly exciting, challenging and ambitious piece of service design in the area of criminal justice and substance misuse. I've already written two blog posts describing the project and the process we undertook with a range of partners. These included a local authority,...
Jenn Ashworth in the Guardian: the reasonableness of school refusal
I tend to think of disengagement from school as a passive thing – that is, a lack of interest in one’s classes. But Jenn Ashworth’s piece in last Saturday’s Guardian, Why I Refused to Go to School, offers a reminder that for many students, disengagement means an active aversion to school, not just a lack of enthusiasm for it.
When she was 13 years old, Ashworth refused to go to school:
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