How a programme giving millions to residents to improve their neighbourhoods also risks entrenching inequality
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par Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Lancaster University
Emma Halliday, Senior Research Fellow in Health and Medecine, Lancaster University
Rebecca Mead, Senior Research Associate in Public Health Policy, Lancaster University
Over the past quarter century, the idea has taken hold among politicians across the spectrum that one of the best ways to address inequality is to give local communities the resources to do the work themselves. Provide them with funding and they can spend it on the projects that their communities really need. But our research has shown that while many of these projects can be very positive, they can also entrench existing inequalities.
The UK’s largest community empowerment programme, the National Lottery-funded Big…
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mardi 19 décembre 2023
