Can the NHS cope with the coming austerity?
The NHS has enjoyed a decade of unprecedented investment. Now a period of grim austerity looms. Is it resilient enough to cope? Andrew Cole reportsAfter the feast comes the famine. Everyone now seems...
View ArticleExperts give their view on the squeeze on the health budget
How will the squeeze on budgets hit healthcare?Karl Emmerson, deputy director, Institute for Fiscal StudiesPublic spending allocations look very, very tight from April 2011. Once you take debt interest...
View ArticleLottery fund pledges £43m to help recession-hit communities
Charities welcome lottery's new strategy of giving 80% of its funds to voluntary organisationsCharities were today promised a £43m kitty from the lottery's good causes fund to help recession-hit...
View ArticleHow Macmillan is dealing with the downturn | Charles Byrne
Whatever is happening with the economy, more people are living with cancer than ever before and demand for Macmillan's breadth of services is ever increasing, writes Charles ByrneTimes are worrying for...
View ArticleSurvival of the fittest: can charities ride out the slump?
As the recession hits charities hard, do they have enough financial nous to ride out the slump? By Tony LeveneCharity finance is under greater pressure than at any time in living memory. Whatever...
View ArticleIs the recession a chance to simplify and improve public service delivery?
Can the recession be seized on as a chance to simplify and improve public service delivery?A row over impending public spending cuts has raised hackles in Westminster, with both major parties' plans...
View ArticleWhy Scandinavia can teach us a thing or two about surviving a recession
Sweden, Denmark and Norway are coping better with the economic downturn than most countries, despite having an expensive welfare systemAccording to liberal thinkers, Scandinavian countries should have...
View ArticlePublic sector cuts could lead second wave of jobs crisis
Mounting redundancies in the public sector could delay a recovery in the jobs market in the second half of the year, it was revealed today.As ministers brace themselves for the latest jobless figures...
View ArticleInterview: Angela Smith, third sector minister
As the government today announces its package of support for charities hit by the economic crisis, the third sector minister tells Anna Bawden why talk of possible electoral defeat won't dent her...
View ArticleDon't get hypnotised by the recession
We mustn't become entranced by images of chained-up factory gates and lengthening dole queues, but concentrate instead on recession-proofing vulnerable communitiesRecession. This word has a powerful...
View ArticleOne recession is serious – a second could be disastrous | Karen Day
The inevitable future reduction in public services may trigger a second recession unique to deprived communitiesThe four neighbourhoods featured in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Communities in...
View ArticleFeeling anxious or distressed? Call the new NHS Stressline
The NHS is launching a new freephone helpline to tackle the rising levels of anxiety and distress caused by unemployment and debtPeople worried about their finances and job situation can, from today,...
View ArticleLetters: A tale of two eras – Dickens's resonance today
The 200th birthday of Charles Dickens is a reminder that the old argument about whether the Labour party owed more to Methodism than to Marx was always incomplete because it missed out Dickens (Report,...
View ArticleSeumas Milne: Ignore the Tories. You can't cut your way out of a slump
An unholy alliance of Cameron, King and the CBI are trying to spook the public and the markets about debtIt seems just like old times. Once again a Labour government is under siege from the Bank of...
View ArticleOff diary: Recession's threat to vulnerable people
Older and disabled people are at greater risk of abuse because of the recession, directors of adult social services are warning after a survey published today indicated a marked increase in suspected...
View ArticleHow public services can survive the recession
With public services facing huge cuts, frontline veterans of earlier recessions offer their advice to ensure a healthy outcome: harness enthusiasm and experience, be innovative and don't lose sight of...
View ArticleMark Gould on a shortage of homeless hostels
A new survey reveals that with the credit crunch creating a new wave of homeless people, more than one in four local authorities (28%) in England do not provide any emergency accommodation to those...
View ArticleBlog: The public sector's got talent
Yvonne Sellexplains how organisations can make best use of their employees' skills during lean timesThe next few years in the public sector are going to be tough. Tough times require talented people,...
View ArticleBurgeoning government borrowing calls for severe fiscal tightening
Ballooning budget deficit will usher a prolonged period of belt-tightening over the next decadeGet ready for the Age of Austerity. If the years from 1997 to 2007 was Tony Blair's version of the...
View ArticleBritain's real jobless total 'more than 3m' says new report
Manufacturing 'badly hit' in industrial heartlands, creating a widening north-south divide in the labour marketRapidly rising unemployment in Britain's industrial heartlands has sent the real level of...
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