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Youth engagement: can we afford not to invest in what works?

By James Laurence Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Growth and Inclusion, OnCohesion Posted: May 17, 2018

As part of a preview to our new publication ‘OnCohesion’ read Dr James Laurence’s blog from the collection which examines how effective youth social and civic engagement schemes can be in cultivating and strengthening social cohesion, especially among young people. Youth social and civic participation schemes create positive social mixing where young people are working […]

Tagged With: Children & Young People, communities, inequalities, OnCohesion

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The redundancy trauma

By James Laurence Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: April 14, 2015

Around 2.7 million people were made redundant in the UK during the ‘Great Recession’. Dr James Laurence examines the legacy of distrust created by those redundancies. The impact of the recession is the dominant back-drop to the General Election campaign. Politicians from all parties explain their approach to the continuing fiscal deficit. Yet there is […]

Tagged With: deficit, distrust, general election, Hard Times, lay-offs, National Child Development Survey, recession, redundancy, the Great Recession, unemployment, well-being

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