Impact on local government and poorer communities

"This report focuses in particular on the impacts on poorer households and communities, and seeks to identify some key messages for policymakers that would enable the process to continue in a way that minimises harm and has most chance of delivering savings in a manner that supports more efficient and more effective local government services."

The cost of the cuts: The impact on local government and poorer communities
A Hastings, N Bailey, G Bramley, M Gannon, D Watkins
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
March 2015

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Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers

"This guide aims to provide professionals with the following:

• an overview of the health needs of these three vulnerable groups in society
• practical support to help commissioners to build the understanding of local needs into the Joint
• Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Health and Wellbeing Strategies (HWBS)
• sample models of how services can meet needs to inform commissioning and local service
• provision, looking at both health-only and more holistic initiatives"

Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers
P Gill, U MacLeod, H Lester, A Hegenbarth
Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Innovation and Research Centre
September 2013

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