Alot of my reading, blog following and podcast listening of late has been around the "big society". The Keystone Trust who are based in Breckland have just published a new book on Big Society. This can be downloaded from their website. Here's their release ...
The Big Society Challenge - please feel free to distribute to your colleagues and networks. I hope you find it of use. The book was launched at the RSA in London on Thursday; it has papers from 22 authors (practitioners as well as academics) tackling the issues of the Big Society from many perspectives.
Amid calls for a new localised state, a strengthened civil society, and communities made powerful, how do community practitioners foresee the implementation of the Big Society initiatives?
Keystone Development Trust’s new book, sponsored by Development Trusts Association (DTA), Lankelly Chase, bassac, and Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) investigates the intellectual roots and political context for the Big Society agenda, and challenges the detail of plans to empower communities, and for public sector reform, suggesting ways to implement the vision of Big Society successfully.
This collection of short and accessible papers, featuring case studies from DTA and bassac membership, addresses the perceived difficulties of accountability, the dichotomy of civil society and the state, the relationship between individual action and collective action, and points to the successful examples of the vision in action now. It also explores how the idea will affect key areas such as housing, poverty, inequality, rural communities, the environment, and how it sits alongside social enterprise and the new austerity.
The Big Society Challenge is available in PDF for free at www.keystonetrust.org.uk or £10 for a hard copy
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