Professor Dave Adamson Centre for Regeneration Excellence Wales

1. Professor Dave Adamson Centre for Regeneration Excellence Wales Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

2. The Policy Context • Area based regeneration • Policy similarities and divergence • Variation in delivery models • Variation in governance patterns Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

3. The Devolution Context • Four administrations • Different devolved powers • Northern Ireland suspensions • Autonomy in regeneration policy field Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

4. The Limitations of the Project • Personal overview • Limited case studies • Not an evaluation Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

5. Research Issues • Attribution of impact on poverty • Poverty as income poverty • Social exclusion • The ‘lived experience of poverty’ Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

6. Assessing impact of regeneration: a personal view • Atmosphere • Landscape • Horizon Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

7. The Devolved Policies: Northern Ireland • New TSN • Lifetime Opportunities • Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

8. The Devolved Policies: Northern Ireland: An assessment • A fractured process • Failure of ‘bending’ • Failure of integration of policy • No change in atmosphere, landscape or horizon Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

9. The Devolved Policies: Wales • Communities First • Programme for a ‘generation’ • Recently linked to local targets and Wales child poverty objectives Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

10. The Devolved Policies: Wales: an assessment • Successful community engagement • Failure of ‘bending’ • Failure to link with mainstream policies • Changed atmosphere, failure to change landscape and horizon Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

11. The Devolved Policies: Scotland • Social Justice: A Scotland where everyone matters • Social Inclusion Partnerships • Community Planning Partnerships • The Community Regeneration Fund • The Fairer Scotland Fund Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

12. The Devolved Policies: Scotland: an assessment • The role of housing renewal • Effective partnership in SIPS • Failure of ‘bending’ • The demise of community involvement? • The dilution of area-based regeneration? Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

13. The Devolved Policies: Scotland: an assessment • Improvements in atmosphere • Improvements in landscape • No significant change to horizon Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

14. The Devolved Policies: England • New Deal for Communities • Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal • Associated programmes and funding streams • Working Neighbourhoods Fund Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

15. The Devolved Policies: England: assessing impact • NDC positive evaluation: local and national • More limited success in health, education and worklessness • NDC and NMP good at community engagement • Evidence of bending and mainstreaming Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

16. The Devolved Policies: Scotland: an assessment • Improvements in atmosphere • Improvements in landscape • Change to horizon Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge

17. The impact of policies: an overview • The value of area-based regeneration • Balancing local and national interventions • The need for bending, mainstreaming and service improvement • The need to change horizons Tackling Multiple Deprivation: the ongoing challenge