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969: Austerity and rural communities

This paper has been summarised from ‘The potential impacts on rural communities of future public sector austerity – a discussion paper’ published by the Commission for Rural Communities.

Year of Publication2010

Those serving rural communities should: use Rural Proofing to support decision makers; commit to demonstrably fair resource allocation; use strong leadership and collaboration to find efficiencies in the rural public sector; look at innovation and good practice and investing in potential; look for opportunities to help local economies to fill the slack created by less public spending, particularly through increased local purchasing; consider investing in areas that are successful but still punching below their economic potential and protect and maintain the capacity of local communities to help themselves.

This item is categorised as follows

• Subject Collection > Rural policy & development > Economic development
• Subject Collection > Rural policy & development > UK rural policy
• Subject Collection > Social & community enterprise

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