Between 2010 and 2015 austerity driven policy has cut local authority budgets by 30 per cent.
Month: February 2017
Hardship and resilience in post-crisis Europe
The 2008 financial crisis and subsequent austerity intensified hardship for low income households as well as the middle classes, creating new vulnerabilities across Europe.
Refugee students in higher education: developing a sense of mattering
Refugees and asylum seekers are rarely out of the news. The most recent UNHCR Global Trends report found that in 2015 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution, of which 21.3 million were refugees.