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Summary

Housing market renewal pathfinders have an important part to play in delivering the Respect agenda. Their funding is largely directed at physical interventions to help rebuild communities in places where unsuitable housing has become disconnected from the mainstream housing market. But the pathfinder partnerships are working on a much wider canvas, tackling related issues such as skills, education, poor landlords, crime and antisocial behaviour, all of which contribute to and feed on the unpopularity of these places.

We expect the partnerships - particularly the local authority members - to prioritise and align these complementary activities to deliver a comprehensive and sustainable solution. Our management regime for pathfinders is devolved. When we want to ensure that pathfinders give a particular emphasis to issues, we develop protocols with them that outline clear and transparent expectations. Our biennial funding decisions take into account performance and future proposals to deliver against the protocols and we ask the Audit Commission to report on performance at agreed milestones.

The Respect protocol has the active support of the support of all the pathfinders, the Home Office and Communities and Local Government.

There are nine housing market renewal pathfinders:

• Birmingham/Sandwell
• East Lancashire
• Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire
• Manchester/Salford
• Merseyside
• Newcastle & Gateshead
• North Staffordshire
• Oldham & Rochdale
• South Yorkshire

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