I am working on this from the (UK) public finances perspective but right now it is I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-Y difficult to get an audience for any thing that starts with “We need to spend more money on…”
I constantly come up against two additional barriers
The first can be summarised as “They need to show it works – then there might be something to look at”. Catch 22.
The second is best expressed by my “yoof group” here http://forum.liysf.org.uk/yaf_postsm12_More-money.aspx
If at first…