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Welcome to: An Introduction to Regeneration.

Welcome to: An Introduction to Regeneration. Conrad Parke – Head of Skills Development Tel: 0121 202 3260 E-mail: conrad.parke@regenwm.org. An introduction to regeneration:. Sustainability - sustainable development or sustainable communities?

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Welcome to: An Introduction to Regeneration.

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  1. Welcome to:An Introduction to Regeneration. Conrad Parke – Head of Skills Development Tel: 0121 202 3260 E-mail: conrad.parke@regenwm.org Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  2. An introduction to regeneration: Sustainability - sustainable development or sustainable communities? “Development which meets the needs of the present…………….. Without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  3. An introduction to regeneration: • Understanding the need. • Understanding the model. • Understanding the challenges. • The part the HE/FE can play. • Bringing it back to Sustainable Development (lessons from sustainable communities) Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  4. An introduction to regeneration: • Wikipedia – “is a process of land re-development in areas of prior moderately to high dense urban land use ” • OED – “bring new and more vigorous life to (an area or institution)”. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  5. An introduction to regeneration: • Tony Blair (1997) • “When we came into office, we inherited a country where hundreds of neighborhoods were scarred by unemployment, educational failure and crime. They had become progressively more cut off from the prosperity and opportunities that most of us take for granted. Communities were breaking down. Public services were failing. People had started to lose hope. That’s why I asked the Social Exclusion Unit to work on developing a new and integrated approach to reversing this decline.” Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  6. An introduction to regeneration: • No “one type” • No “one size” • But there is a common theme of something “extra” – above and beyond existing services to bring about change…………. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  7. An introduction to regeneration: But why do we need regeneration? • Have a 10 minute discussion and identify three reason why the 3 Estates, Kings Norton became “an excluded community”. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  8. An introduction to regeneration: Why do we need regeneration: • The economy. • Geography. • Downward spiral. • Demand outstrips supply. • The Welfare State is not the solution. • The Public Sector – reactive, regulatory. • Public/Private/Voluntary – co-ordination. • Structures and decision making. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  9. An introduction to regeneration: • So how does it work? • Time limited • Usually from additional funding. • With a partnership approach. • To bring a community back up to a point where it is “sustainable” – i.e. additional funding no longer needed. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  10. An introduction to regeneration: So why does struggle to deliver? • Take ten minutes to identify three reasons why regeneration frequently fails to make a long term difference. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  11. An introduction to regeneration: So why has regeneration struggled to deliver? • Time pressure. • Single issue. • Solution led. • Not mainstream. • Not sustainable. • Lack the necessary “core skills/processes”. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  12. An introduction to regeneration: The Future:- Is large scale, geographically based regeneration a thing of the past? - LSP’s/Local Area Agreements. - RDA now programme not project management. - Region wide economic and spatial strategies. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  13. An introduction to regeneration: The Part the HE/FE can play:- • Employment outcomes • Education outcomes (parent and child) • Community safety outcomes (social capital) • Even……….. Health outcomes Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

  14. An introduction to regeneration: Lessons from regeneration (sustainable communities for sustainable development). The Egan Review – our “Inconvenient Truth”. It is not just about greening the curriculum it about the skills to get the job done. Otherwise in 20 years time there will be an Egan Review for Sustainable Development. Regeneration Centre of Excellence for the West Midlands

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