Can Do Citizens
Author: Matthew Pike
Publisher: Social Enterprise Services
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Summary
Lord Scarman’s landmark report of 1981 on the causes of the most serious civil unrest of the century, made a damning verdict. No real improvement had taken place in the communities at the centre of the disturbances, he said, over the past 30 years. Over 20 years on from Scarman those on the margins of society remain powerless, their "ambition meeting a brick wall”. The welfare state may have managed poverty and powerlessness better than before, but it has not removed or transformed it.
This book argues that, to make real progress in the future, we need nothing less than a new social contract, that is focused unequivocally upon can do citizens - building people’s power to do what they want – can do - and their ability to become the people that they want to be – can be. It suggests that we should do this by building individual and collective ownership of key assets.
Can Do Citizens describes a series of bold new actions that could be taken to increase the wealth of marginalised communities. It shows how powerful new civic institutions can be developed, through partnership between civil society and government. It concludes by proposing that new social and economic rights should place a universal entitlement to build key assets at the heart of our constitution.
This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the renewal of our communities.
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