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).
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 |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 61-99 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | Journal of Playwork Practice |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- children's geographies
- playwork
- austerity
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McKendrick, J. H., Horton, J., Kraftl, P., & Else, P. (2014). Practice: playwork in times of austerity. Journal of Playwork Practice, 1(1), 61-99. https://doi.org/10.1332/205316214X13944646135712