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Power, Andrew, Hall, Edward, Kaley, Alex 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-1604 and Macpherson, Hannah
(2021)
Voluntary support in a post-welfare state: Experiences and challenges of precarity.
Geoforum, 125.
pp. 87-95.
ISSN 0016-7185
Abstract
This paper examines voluntary sector care and support provision under a context of significantly reduced government funding. Whilst geographers have analysed the causes and aftermath of austerity on different populations, our focus is on how managers of voluntary sector organisations have had to learn and evolve through bidding for non-statutory funding to sustain their core provision. Drawing on research with voluntary support organisations in the learning disability social care sector in England and Scotland, the paper examines the effects of the state's continued reliance on the sector for core ‘public’ services whilst simultaneously withdrawing its funding. Using accounts from managers, the paper offers a particularly novel and potent example of voluntary sector precarity and the deepening unfinished and unsettled nature of care and support that has unfolded in the wake of austerity. Through the empirical research, attention is drawn to three levels of precarity that are experienced by those seeking to sustain voluntary support provision: voluntary sector organisation and structures, the voluntary sector workforce, and individual managers’ everyday emotional and affective experiences.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: So currently a small proportion of our income is from the local authority and CCG [Clinical Commissioning Group] and that’s the Forum and Quality Check project so of our income it’s about ten percent. And the rest of it is through funding grants and donations… We’ve been funded by Mencap, People’s Health Trust, Lloyds Community Health Foundation Trust, Water [supplier], we get lots of little bits of grants from them, Comic Relief, so we’ve got, at any one time, we could have 20 funders who all want reporting and writing. We apply to small organisations locally who might give us five thousand every couple of years, something like that, that helps us go. So it’s hand to mouth. And I think most charities would say the same. (Casey, Friendship MeetUps, England) Funding Information: Thanks go to our other research team members Melanie Nind, Andy Coverdale and Abigail Croydon, as well as our advisory group partners, for their help throughout the research. The work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council: Reclaiming social care: Adults with learning disabilities seizing opportunities in the shift from day services to community lives (ES/P011764/1). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | austerity,co-production,disability,non-profit,third sector,welfare,sociology and political science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2025 01:05 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2025 00:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98078 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.003 |
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