Choppy Waters: Covid-19, changes in support needs and growing funding stresses
Choppy Waters Covid-19, changes in support needs and growing funding stresses Since 2014, Cohort 4 has operated across a small geographical region containing pockets of significant deprivation (Indices of Deprivation, 2019). We are within a mainly working class, predominantly white area in North of Warwickshire, a semi-rural, ex mining area where the closure of the pits decimated communities in the 1980s onwards. Public transport has been reduced from the outlying mining villages. Police stations, probation offices, social services and other statutory services have closed their buildings in semi-rural or small market town communities, moving to more centralised, large town locations. All of this serves to disadvantage semi-rural communities. Larger charities and support services also locate themselves in large towns and…