The welfare state is being unwound as services are wrenched from communities | Ray Jones

Why are families and vulnerable children having to travel miles for services that should be on their doorstep?

It is more than 400 years since the advent of the Elizabethan Poor Law.

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It is time not just to reflect but to start to revitalise what has recently been trashed

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