Can we fix the social capital gap?
Social capital cannot be ‘built’ and ‘deployed’ top-down to deliver specific policy objectives. Social capital is built by local communities and drawn down by them when addressing issues that matter locally.
Category: Social Investment
What the chancellor didn’t mention
Budget days and autumn statements are always occasions of great drama: rabbits are pulled from hats, little red books are tossed across the dispatch box, and soundbites abound. Yesterday’s budget was no exception. Alongside four references to the “long term economic plan”, there were at least six exhortations to “act now so we don’t pay…