This paper examines voluntary sector care and support provision under a context of
significantly reduced government funding. Whilst geographers have analysed the causes …

The past decade of austerity in the UK has accelerated changes in the relationship between
citizens and the state. Cuts to welfare spending have resulted in uneven geographical …

This article explores how austerity has affected the ability of voluntary sector organisations in
England to represent, advocate and lobby to ensure that the voice of disadvantaged people …

Over the past two decades or so, governments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK
and other Western states have sought to roll back state involvement in welfare provision …

This paper considers implications for the English voluntary sector of recent shifts in the terms
of engagement with the state following rapid political and policy changes under the UK …

Austerity localism powerfully explains dynamics of (dis) empowerment at the local level,
especially regarding the autonomy and accountability of local authorities and third sector …

Why has the voluntary and community sector become increasingly fashionable in social
policies over recent years? This chapter explores how policies for regenerating deprived …

As personalization has dominated the policy agenda for reform in social care, its roll‐out as
a mainstream option has coincided with global programmes of austerity which have targeted …

The boundaries of the welfare state in Britain have shifted considerably since the early
1980s. In the context of a desire to see an expanded mixed economyof welfare, the …

Voluntarism has moved to the centre of most western neo-liberal governments' focus in
terms of welfare delivery. At the same time, very little of the social policy literature has …