Description:
The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.
This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sector's workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries.
Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.
Brief description: James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.
Review Quotes: "The chapters provide useful fine-grained detail on the diversity of the voluntary sector, from the large national organizations to 'hyperlocal' ones, from mutual aid to community business and social enterprise sectors." Social Policy & Administration