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The ten most recent research publications on the communities and neighbourhoods site.

• The Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) Scoping Study

  The Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) Scoping Study report provides an overview of the nature and scale of the worklessness problem in WNF areas and the strategies in place to tackle it.

  • Added:  4 February 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• Understanding the value and benefits of establishing a local information system

  This report provides evidence for local partnerships on the costs, savings and other benefits of establishing a local information system.

  • Added:  28 January 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research; Reports and summaries

• Tracking economic deprivation in New Deal for Communities areas

  This report tracks economic deprivation in the New Deal for Communities (NDC) areas between 1999 and 2005 using the Economic Deprivation Index (EDI).

  • Added:  7 January 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• Crimes occurring and prevented in New Deal for Communities areas

  This research report investigates the economic costs of crime potentially prevented by the New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme.

  • Added:  7 January 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• Assessing neighbourhood level regeneration and public expenditure

  This report provides an assessment of the levels of public expenditure in a New Deal for Communities (NDC) area compared to the local authority as a whole, focussing on the example of the Bradford NDC area.

  • Added:  7 January 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• An evaluation of the community contracts pilot programme

  This report presents the results of a small-scale evaluation of the community contracts pilot programme.

  • Added:  4 January 2010
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research; Reports and summaries

• An analytical framework for community empowerment evaluations

  This framework provides guidance to researchers and practitioners who are intending to assess the success of community empowerment interventions.

  • Added:  15 December 2009
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• Measuring and valuing public services at the neighbourhood level

  This report sets out the importance of measuring the changing performance of public services at a neighbourhood level, and forms part of the evaluation of the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders. Published 19/11/09.

  • Added:  19 November 2009
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research

• Building Cohesive Communities: What frontline staff and community activists need to know

  This is a short practical guide for busy activists and frontline staff working on community cohesion.

  • Added:  14 October 2009
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Good practice and guidance; Research

• Understanding and tackling worklessness: Lessons and policy implications

  This is a synthesis of the key findings from the two detailed volumes addressing the nature of worklessness in New Deal for Communities areas and the strategies adopted by NDC Partnerships to improve employment in these deprived neighbourhoods.

  • Added:  6 October 2009
  • Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
  • Type(s): Research