Last week saw the prime minister relaunch the Big Society vision at a seminar I attended. It is dear how passionate and committed he is to achieving real change in communities, but it seems questionable how possible this is, given the scale of cuts being made to local services across the country. In many ways, the Big Society is already with us. It exists in organisations such as the WRVS, which has trained up volunteers to support the enablement of older people leaving hospital, or Springboard for Children, which saves the Government between ￡50,000 and ￡64,000 for every individual
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