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The Big Society - Needs National Citizen Service For The Aged

Mal Fletcher
Posted 25 July 2010		 Full version    Print version    PDA version    

Any political party that has been out of power for more than 13 years will naturally want to bring with it a big idea when it next fills the government benches. For David Cameron and his Lib-Con marriage of inconvenience, that big idea is called the Big Society. In part, I suspect, the title represents an attempt to contrast the new regime with the Big Government ways of its predecessor. It is also, of course, a response to the urgent need for cuts in spending on social services - in the hope that,... Click for more

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