Featured news: Serving Deprived Communities in a Recession

This newly published report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores how budget cuts will affect the capacity of local government to meet the needs of more deprived households and communities. The report highlights the real concern that more deprived groups will suffer the most, including children in London already living in poverty. This report provides early, systematic evidence of the scale of the cuts and of how local councils are grappling with these issues.