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Implications for neighbourhood policy

Implications for neighbourhood policy. Implications for neighbourhood policy. Lecture overview: Objectives of lecture Introductory questions Neighbourhood policy initiatives Southampton example Data futures Importance of geography Lecture summary. Objectives.

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Implications for neighbourhood policy

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  1. Implications for neighbourhood policy

  2. Implications for neighbourhood policy • Lecture overview: Objectives of lecture Introductory questions Neighbourhood policy initiatives Southampton example Data futures Importance of geography Lecture summary

  3. Objectives • Consider range of neighbourhood-based policy initiatives • Review importance of neighbourhood data in this context • Role of social geography

  4. Introductory questions… How does all this affect what happens in my neighbourhood? What data and collection geographies are needed to inform policy?

  5. Neighbourhood policy

  6. New deal for communities • 17 projects in 1998; 22 in 1999 • Long-term projects involving local partnerships • Community involvement • Evidence-based, joined-up approach • Reference to baseline data and targets (‘floor targets’)

  7. NDC: five key themes • poor job prospects • high levels of crime • educational under-achievement • poor health • problems with housing and the physical environment

  8. Neighbourhood renewal fund • 88 authorities (50 most deprived in IMD2000, plus transitional arrangements for those previously in top 50) £450m 2004-5 • Need local strategic partnerships • Focus on tackling local deprivation • Also community empowerment funds (£12m) Community Chest funds (£20m)

  9. Neighbourhood renewal fund • Additional targeting on those “local authority areas that face the greatest challenge to turn around long term multiple deprivation and achieve national floor targets” (NRU) • Can be spent in any way that tackles deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods – determined by LSPs.

  10. Jobs/Worklessness- Employment- Enterprise- Regional Performance- Rural Productivity Crime- Burglary/Vehicle crime/Robbery Education- GSCE by LEA- GSCE by School- Primary literacy and numeracy- Secondary literacy and numeracy Health- Life Expectancy- Teenage Pregnancy- Road casualties Housing and the Environment- Social Housing General- Neighbourhood Renewal Floor targets (e.g.s)

  11. 2004/5 NRF allocations (largest) • Liverpool £26m • Manchester £26m • Birmingham £22m • Newham £17m • Hackney £11m • Tower Hamlets £14m

  12. Local neighbourhood renewal strategies • Southampton 2004-5 £0.8m www.southampton-partnership.com Southampton.gov.uk

  13. Areas of disadvantage in Southampton Source: Southampton.gov.uk

  14. Thornhill priority area – e.g. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

  15. Wards as neighbourhoods? • ‘to get an idea of what is going on at the neighbourhood level, statistics from electoral wards are often used. This is only a proxy – but at the moment it is the best one we have.’ (Social Exclusion Unit, 2001)

  16. Neighbourhood Statistics Service

  17. OA/SOA geography • OAs as the building blocks for SOAs • Already used for ID2004 • These will form the spatial basis for new neighbourhood statistics • De facto building blocks of “neighbourhood”? • Future link to address level: essential to 2011 census enumeration

  18. Index of Deprivation 2004 www.odpm.gov.uk www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

  19. Importance of geography • Concepts: neighbourhood focus raising geographical awareness • Data collection and output: geographical methodology • Analysis: geographical aspects of visualisation and change over time • Theory: ongoing need for adequate theorisation of neighbourhood

  20. Lecture summary • Pervasiveness of neighbourhood policy • Local impacts • Centrality of small area geographical data and indicators • Importance of geography!

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