Devolving to Neighbourhoods
What's the agenda?
The 2008 'Communities in Control' white paper, building on the
earlier 2007 local government white paper, is giving a major new
boost to local devolution. New neighbourhood councils,
neighbourhood charters, and new rights to hold service providers to
account, are going to build upon the success of Neighbourhood
Management. Is Neighbourhood Management effective in reducing the
gap between the most deprived neighbourhoods and the rest? How do
active citizens and the voluntary sector get to play a key role in
local partnerships? What will Local Area Agreements do to give real
power to local communities to decide their priorities and what gets
funded?
Our Expertise
- Compiling baseline and mid term performance data
- Creating local quality of life indicators against which to
track changes
- Auditing community needs and measuring 'social capital' using
the ONS toolkit
- Helping LSPs develop better partnership working and track LAA
performance
- Evaluating the effectiveness of community and voluntary sector
engagement
- Evaluation of project outcomes and programme effectiveness, in
area-based regeneration initiatives such as NDCs, CDTs and WNF
projects
- Collaboration with our sponsored independent, not-for-profit
'Centre for Community Research' agency
- Skilling residents to be active citizens, local service
auditors and 'mystery shoppers '
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