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			<title>Lost: local government – last seen in the vicinity of Big Society – reward offered!</title>
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Liverpool and the Merseyside Network for Europe played host to our most recent Big Society seminar. And although I keep thinking I'm going to struggle to find something new to say about each seminar...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:22:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Optimism amid the dark cloud on the Big Society frontline</title>
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Discussion at recent Big Society seminars we've held led me to believe there was a hardening of opinion within the voluntary and community sector as people prepared for a battle for survival. While ...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:27:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Is Big Society set for a showdown with the collision government?</title>
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Our Big Society briefing seminars (events/getting-to-grips-with-the-coalition-government) are becoming something of a tour...with four done and four to go, before a notional summer break for a coupl...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:52:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Big Society view from the frontline – Almost a revolution</title>
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One participant at the third of our getting to grips with the new government seminars (index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=885&Itemid=91), this time in Exeter, described Big Society as &lsquo;...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Why we need to reconfigure the Big Society programme</title>
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There has been a lot of Big Society talk this week with David Cameron's &lsquo;Big Speech' in Liverpool (http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/speeches-and-transcripts/2010/07/big-society-speech-53572). M...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:10:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Big Society - thoughts from the frontline part 2</title>
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This week we held the second in our series of briefing seminars on Big Society and the new government's plans and priorities, this time in Hull. The mood and the discussion was somewhat different to...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:08:12 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Big Society - the view from the frontline</title>
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This week we held the first of a series of seminars for our members (index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=885&Itemid=91) to discuss the government's plans, the spending cuts and, in particular,...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:29:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Osborne hails ‘progressive budget' but does it stack up?</title>
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Everyone knows the government faced some terribly difficult decisions, but the Budget's impact is likely to place tremendous strain on the demand for the services of charities and community groups. ...]]></description>
			<author>Toby Blume</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:05:25 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Community cohesion? Collapse of the far right vote</title>
			<link>http://www.urbanforum.org.uk/whitehall-watch-blog/community-cohesion-collapse-of-the-far-right-vote</link>
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One significant outcome of the local elections was the collapse of electoral support for the far right. The biggest of the far right parties, the BNP gained no seats in the General Election, and los...]]></description>
			<author>Tony Hillman</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 13:05:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Post-Election tips for community groups</title>
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Following the local election results, it is definitely the case that there are a significant number of new council administrations, and a large number of new councillors.


Local councillors and ...]]></description>
			<author>Tony Hillman</author>
			<category>Publications - Whitehall Watch</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 15:41:35 +0100</pubDate>
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