Category Archives: riots

Ready to Expand the National Citizen Service

This summer saw the pilot projects of the National Citizen Service. The programme contrasted with news of rioting around the nation More »

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What is the Role of the Big Society in the Life of the Family?

An interesting editorial in the Guardian considers the responses to last month’s riots asks what role local councils should play in raising children:

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Big Society and Social Policy in the Wake of the Riot

A BBC News editorial looks at the changing focus of domestic policy in the wake of the London Riots, particularly the new “social policy review group”:
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Ironic Interruption: National Citizen Service & the Riots

This summers pilot National Citizen Service programs were complicated by the outbreak of riots in some of the areas they were serving. More »

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