Authors: Will Tanner, Fjolla Krasniqi and James Blagden
Overview
This report explores who is driving community decline and exposes a startling insight – that the fraying of Britain’s social fabric may be in large part a generational problem. Younger generations appear to be suffering from what can only be described as a collapse in community, and this crisis of belonging is getting worse over time. Combining analysis of longitudinal surveys with our own polling, we find that young people appear to be around half as likely to say they think other people are trustworthy as they were sixty years ago, 18-24 year-olds are more likely to distrust their neighbours than trust them, and most worryingly of all, younger generations’ interpersonal social networks appear to be narrowing.
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