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23 Jul 2010

4 schools and one road ... the movie

Schools along Abbeydale Road in Sheffield recently met up to talk about their neighbourhoods, as part of Cadence Works' Hoodie, goodie, buddy project. Sort of Films of Sheffield made a film about it. Click through to see the link to it.

16 Jul 2010

Public health and local democracy

Cadence recently did some work on making the business case for local government in relation to health. We used the example of health inequalities to tease out some of the issues, focusing on the environmental and social causes of them. It is therefore interesting to see the health white paper this week that suggests public health at least is going to become a local authority responsibility ... more

2 Jul 2010

Not all cuts are the same

There is no disagreement that there needs to be cuts to public spending, but that is where the agreement stops. What to cut, when to cut it and why to cut are all areas of conflict across and within political parties, the media and institutions like think tanks. We have discussed here in the past the dangers of cutting without understanding which bits of a system help and which hinder. The new government, understandably, talks about cutting out the waste that the last government created. Nobody can argue with cutting waste, but defining what is waste is not easy ... more