Showing: Briefings
This briefing explores the findings from a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that sets out the aims, rationales and types of demand-side policies for inclusive growth in cities, with evidence from global cities Chicago, Melbourne and Limerick.
This briefing will be of interest to anyone active in local and community governance structures, in integrating local services and designing and delivering more responsive, people-centred public services.
In this Briefing we look at the concept of inclusive growth and reflect on how it is now beginning to impact the way public policy is being delivered.
With their remit for wellbeing, public health, and community development, local authorities have a central role to play in promoting age friendly communities. Such a remit is not easy at a period of austerity, yet three case studies from the UK and Ireland provide lessons as to how this might be done.
Everyone knows that local authority budgets are being squeezed from all directions, but less well understood from an Irish perspective, are the variety of council services that will be reduced or cut in order to keep ‘essential’ services operating. This briefing explores the UK context of this.
The accuracy of the official figures on housing output has been called into question and received prominent coverage in the national press. This briefing looks at the main sources of information and provides some cautionary words.
Evidence shows that educational outcomes for children and young people from the traveller community are less favourable than for the rest of the population. Here, we explore what might be done to counter this.
This paper examines housing/homelessness services to ascertain how changes to central government funding streams have affected their provision, and provide a comparative analysis of the Scottish case by assessing the current central-local government relationship in England and Ireland.
Sections of the Housing Act have not been implemented and no significant policy changes introduced. In this briefing we look at some of the implications of continuing with an unreformed rent model for social housing in Ireland.
Libraries provide the perfect environment for social inclusive policies to be tested and implemented. Given the important role played by libraries and Canada’s rich multicultural heritage, this briefing will assess the role of public libraries in this integration effort, and outline how these developments could be applied to Ireland.