Abstract
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition government that was elected to govern the UK in May 2010 initiated an ‘austerity programme’, which had the overarching aim of addressing a government budget deficit. The Coalition’s Public Spending Review in October 2010 instigated a programme (framed as ‘unavoidable’, ‘essential’) to reduce national public spending by £81billion by 2015, via funding cuts to national government departments and Local Authority budgets (HM Treasury 2010). The Review was explicitly accompanied by calls to reform and rationalise service-provision, ‘cut waste’, and roll back the depth and breadth of government involvement in everyday life, retracting control and responsibility for direct provision of many public services (BBC, 2010).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 61-99 |
Number of pages | 39 |
Journal | Journal of Playwork Practice |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- children's geographies
- playwork
- austerity