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No Longer 'Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards'? Advances in Local State- Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19

Cook, Joanne; Thiery, Harriet; Burchell, Jon

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Professor Joe Cook Joanne.Cook@hull.ac.uk
Professor in Organisational Behaviour/Human Resources Management

Jon Burchell



Abstract

Despite the significant influence of localism on policy discourses in the UK in recent decades, there has been limited evidence of any fundamental changes in state-civil society relationships. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 created a new context for cross-sectoral collaboration, as the local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and local communities moved to the forefront of the crisis response. This paper draws upon 49 semi-structured interviews with local authorities (LAs) and VCS organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, to explore how the pandemic has reshaped LA-VCS collaboration. Examining the evolution of a range of local collaborative frameworks during the Covid-19 crisis, the article examines what enabled these collaborations to develop, how they operated and what insights can be derived regarding both the conditions for collaboration to flourish and the capacity to sustain this going forward. The findings offer insights into what more progressive forms of collaboration might look like during the transition from crisis and into 2 recovery. It contributes to broader debates about whether the models deployed during Covid-19 represent a pathway to more consensus-based collaboration after a decade of antagonism between civil society and the state.

Citation

Cook, J., Thiery, H., & Burchell, J. (in press). No Longer 'Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards'? Advances in Local State- Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-19. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000939

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 18, 2022
Online Publication Date Feb 9, 2023
Deposit Date Apr 13, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of social policy
Print ISSN 0047-2794
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000939
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4135678
Related Public URLs https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/197436/

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This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000939. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press.




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