Community Assets and the Big Society - who carries the cost? Presentations

Session 1: The long roots of the Big Society

• How does the co-operative instinct emerge in low-income communities - learning from the bottom?
  Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics
  
  
• Why do community assets add value to what people can do?
  Michael Pyner, Chief Executive Shoreditch Trust & Deputy Chair, Locality
  
  
• Why does early action rely on communities? And why do communities need early action?
  Caroline Slocock, Director of Civil Exchange & Advisor to the Early Action Task Force

Session 2: Why people want to share, and how the government can help

• What is the real value of social capital?
  David Halpern, Director of the Behavioural Insight team, Cabinet Office & No 10
  
  
• Why is it hard for government to turn the Big Society ideas into policy?
  Bert Provan, Former Senior Civil Servant / Visitor in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
  
  
• Community and the Big Society - opportunity or threat?
  Neil Stott, Keystone Development Trust