The next Government has been urged to fund councils to carry out basic neighbourhood services to boost community cohesion.
It comes after increased feelings of neighbourhood cohesion at the beginning of the pandemic declined, with the percentage of people who thought Britain would be more united than before post-coronavirus dropping from 57% in April 2020 to 28% just two months later, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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