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New Deal for Communities: Where next for Neighbourhood Renewal?

New Deal for Communities: Where next for Neighbourhood Renewal?. Identifying & overcoming barriers. Evaluating the NDCs. National evaluation programme NRU 4 Year programme Sheffield Hallam University and 16 other organisations Over 100 personnel Covering all 39 NDCs Methodology

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New Deal for Communities: Where next for Neighbourhood Renewal?

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  1. New Deal for Communities: Where next for Neighbourhood Renewal? Identifying & overcoming barriers

  2. Evaluating the NDCs • National evaluation programme • NRU 4 Year programme • Sheffield Hallam University and 16 other organisations • Over 100 personnel • Covering all 39 NDCs • Methodology • Household Survey (twice) • Programme & administrative data • Interviews, policy reviews & performance assessment • National Audit Office • February 2004 report

  3. What helps? • Support from Government Offices and NRU • Community involvement in priorities and delivery • Partnership delivery – sustained relationships with local & national partners • Effective management arrangements • Service sustainability and mainstreaming

  4. What hinders? • Community involvement & leadership • slow process, uncertain legitimacy, people turnover • Poor operating processes • governance, financial reporting, project appraisal, risk assessment, monitoring, project management • Delivery organisations’ vulnerability • Staff instability, skill shortages and HR weakness • Collaboration with mainstream public services • cuts 2 ways

  5. What’s going well? • Crime • Police services are supportive • Demand from community • Quick wins • Health • Lower priority for partnerships • Institutional change • Long term impacts • Education • LMS – but schools always want cash • Catchment geography

  6. What’s going well? • Labour market • Many projects developed … • … poor connection to wider labour market & economy • Patchy engagement with Jobcentre Plus (ES) • Low levels of LSC involvement • Environment and housing • Quick win environmental projects • Major housing change very complex – some debris and unclear link to new policies

  7. What could be done better? • Partnerships • Boards - composition, expertise, turnover, roles & focus • Work with accountable bodies & other agencies • Community involvement • Awareness – planning – consultation – marketing • Variety of undifferentiated mechanisms • Representativeness • BME populations • “NDCs finding the task challenging …” • Mainstreaming

  8. What’s next? • Political change • Nervous about NDCs • Treasury rules: “it’s the economy” • Market management • Sustainability • Policy change • ABIs losing their sparkle • LSPs assuming area leadership • New roles for non-statutory organisations • Regional and sub-regional importance • Mainstreaming

  9. Contacts • Paul Convery, SQW • www.sqw.co.uk • pconvery@sqw.co.uk

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