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Build the Big Society on What We Know Works
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Low, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Hardly anyone can have failed to pick up on the recent flurry of stories in the national press about the Big Society, sparked off by Dame Elisabeth Hoodless's remarks that funds for volunteers are disappearing at an alarming rate, and that this is undermining the very idea of a "Big Society". At the same time, under the government's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Community Development