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Encountering incivility
Assumptions which link incivility with diversity and disadvantage are very often wrong: a recent report found that it's the middle aged men in suits who regularly come in for harsh criticism, says Phoebe Griffith
Youth unemployment: looking past the headlines
Is this the worst time in recent history to be a young person in the UK? Gemma Rocyn-Jones explores youth transitions into employment today in Britain.
Innovation for the Public Good: The Five Keys to Innovation
Ask a passerby to name an innovative organization and a familiar list soon appears: Apple, 3M, Google, eBay, etc. Less known are the innovative agencies in the public sector focused on finding new and better ways to tackle social issues such as crime, poverty, and educational underachievement. Vicki Sellick writes the latest installment of a weekly column on government innovation produced by the Young Foundation in partnership with the Centre for American Progress
Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain (Oct 2011)
Civility can seem like an old fashioned concept and the British public tends to think we are on a spiral of decline when it comes to everyday politeness. This report, co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council, finds that far from a thing of the past, civility is something that people still care deeply about wherever they live, but it warns that long-term trends are making civility hard to maintain.
Cohesion: prevention, action and vision
Political discourse around cohesion in the UK has come down to a simplistic juxtaposition between those "who obey our laws" and those who don't. The government needs to re-think its laissez-faire policy on cohesion, says Phoebe Griffith.
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