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Supporting the take-up of Community Rights
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Ewen McKinnon, Posted on:
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Analysis, Analysis and Insight, Community Life, Wellbeing
Last year the Cabinet Office teamed up with the Department for Communities and Local Government to explore how Community Organisers could support local communities in exercising the rights introduced in the Localism Act 2011. A Community Organiser Mobilisation fund was …
The double benefit of youth social action: findings from an evaluation of the Uniformed Youth Social Action Fund (UYSAF)
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Katie Green, Posted on:
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Analysis, Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society
On the 19th October we published the findings from the evaluation of the two Uniformed Youth Social Action Funds (UYSAF), commissioned by the Cabinet Office and now part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport under the Civil Society …
Community Life Survey 2015-16 - results are out and show that England continues to give their time and money
The Community Life Survey is a major national survey, aiming to track the latest trends and developments across areas that are key to empowering communities. It is used to understand what is happening in areas such as volunteering and charitable …
Organisation Workshops – supporting the long-term unemployed and local communities
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Ewen McKinnon and Morgane Donse, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society
From Brazil to Luton… In 2014 the Centre for Social Action supported an innovative approach to community development and to improving the well-being and employability of the long-term unemployed. It was based on a Brazilian approach with social action at …
Improving the Civil Service People Survey
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David Widlake and Julia Dudley, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Employee Engagement
Like many large employers the Civil Service runs an annual survey to find out the attitudes of its employees and our eighth survey will take place in October. We publish the results every year and you can find the 2015 …
Accounting for people’s experiences in policy development
National Well-being Framework – Quality of Life indicators with a difference In March 2016 the ONS released the latest Life in the UK figures, providing us with a snapshot of how the nation is doing across those areas of life …
Social enterprise: market trends
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Rosie Stock-Jones and Radana Crhova, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society, Social Investment
On 11th March we published a report on the size and characteristics of the social enterprise sector. The report provides an update on the Social enterprise: market trends paper published in 2013. Government is an important source of data in …
Our pro bono work for the British Science Association
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Rosie Stock-Jones and Tom Annable, Posted on:
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Categories:
Analysis, Analysis and Insight
The benefits of civil servants volunteering, to both themselves and charities, were laid out in a recent CSQ article. In this spirit we’ve recently completed a volunteer research project for the British Science Association (BSA). Given the amount we learned …
Talking wellbeing – taking public dialogue further
Following on from our public dialogue into wellbeing in 2014, we partnered with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing to run another dialogue, this time to help them shape their evidence programmes. The findings are published today. The series of …
New Year's resolutions for Cabinet Office analysts - 5 Cs for 2016
Later this week I’ll be hosting the Cabinet Office Analysts Winter Event (previous events are described here). It’ll be a great opportunity to look ahead and see how - as an analytical community - we can have the greatest possible …
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