Policy paper

Social action: harnessing the potential

This paper sets out how social action empowers communities and complements public services, and explains how government supports it.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Published: 12 March 2015

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Social action: harnessing the potential - discussion paper

PDF, 1.91 MB, 30 pages

Details

This discussion paper explains what social action is and how it plays an important role in helping to respond to long-standing challenges. The paper also provides an update on government programmes to develop its reach and impact.

It sets out how social action:

• empowers local groups, enabling local solutions and building resilient communities
• increases the resources available to achieve social goals
• offers new sources of expertise and knowledge
• enables broader and better targeted support
• creates new models for how society can respond to challenges
• helps reduce demands on public services

Read the June 2015 update to this paper.

Published 12 March 2015