The new economics foundation has warned that the spending cuts detailed in the Comprehensive Spending Review will result in a poorer, more hard-pressed society, not a bigger one.
The report Cutting It: The Big Society and the new austerity, provides an analysis of the prospects for the Big Society in the context of the Spending Review. From the analysis it claims that the Government wants the Big Society to pick up the pieces left by its public spending cuts, but the scale and speed of the cuts will leave civil society with an impossible job to do and not nearly enough support.
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