Black Networking Group

The debate over the last few months around the Big Society, seems to ignore the Social Justice and Equalities agenda.  A couple of people in the North West, Tanvir from CDX and Professor John Diamond, have both commented on the Big Society, Equality and Social Justice. The BSN have decided to hold its North West event […]

Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on another significant week: “Not sure that we can cope with yet another “significant week” since the election and the formation of the Conservative / Liberal Coalition. But, it does seem to me that if the economic indicators in the US are right then [. […]

Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on some of the headlines from the news this week: ” Looking through the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies released this week on the impact of the Coalition’s Budget and the increasing number of examples from the Voluntary and Community sector of [. […]

Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) points to continuing absences in the Coalition’s Big Society initiative: “I am struck by the notable absences in the Coalition’s Big Society project. There are, at least, two really central ones – for me- and they are any references to Social Justice and Equalities. […]

Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reviews some recent stories from the national press on the Big Society: “Reading through the papers over the weekend the connections between the Big Society idea, the Coalition’s Budget and the emerging impact of the cuts became clearer. There are two articles which are w […]