Community Services

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Today I want to talk about one article of the community services and particularly of the work than make Mel Clarke, this is a community development worker in a converted double-decker bus providing mobile play facilities for children in rural areas around Bath and north-east Somerset. This project now is finance from the local authority then is not enough and Mel says families are more reliant than ever on the bus  now that haven’t the free places for the children especially in rural areas. The author says than for last year, 325 families visited the bus on a regular basis in 14 different locations. With high transport costs, the bus is the only place where the under-threes in particular get to play and interact with other children.

For other parts Clarke lay out than her organization is more isolated and the big problems is than the resources are more limited and is hard work with the children because now the bus has no such support from statutory services. Clarke is far from the only voluntary sector employee to feel services have deteriorated as a result of the coalition government's austerity agenda. About this topic be had a report lays bare the impact of austerity on services provided by the community and voluntary sector and the survey highlighted the stark economic situation many workers in the voluntary and community sector find themselves in and the author set out than is more important put major resources for community project for the children because is the great places for the development of the children.

This topic connected to my area of studies because I want specializes in the social psychology or the community psychology.

The links for the article is http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/06/budget-cuts-hit-community-services

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