Neighbourhood Renewal
The National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal helps tackle economic and social decline in the country’s 88 most deprived neighbourhoods. Key within this strategy was the establishment of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP), with Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) being available to those LSPs in the 88 areas. Its vision is that within 10 –20 years, no one should be disadvantaged because of where they live. Its two long term goals are:
- all the poorest neighbourhoods to have common targets of improved health, education for all, employment, reduced crime, better housing and physical environment and
- to narrow the gap on these measures between the most deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country.
New Deal for Communities
The aim of New Deal for Communities is a 10 year programme designed to tackle five key areas of deprivation. These comprise:
- poor job prospects
- high levels of crime
- educational under-achievement
- poor health
- problems with housing and physical environment.
There are two New Deal for Communities (NDC) programmes in the East of England. These are located at North Earlham, Larkman & Marlpitt (NELM) in Norwich and at Marsh Farm in Luton. The Norwich programme was awarded funding under round one in 1999/00. Luton NDC was awarded funding under round 2 in 2001/02.
For further information see the links below.
Neighbourhood Management
Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders is a seven year programme that operates at a local level, supporting local communities and service providers to work together to join up and improve services to make them more responsive to local needs. They have a dedicated management resource to follow through on priorities.
Their focus is on changing relationships between service providers and recipients improving providers’ responsiveness to local needs and building a sense of shared responsibility on the ground. This region has a Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder in Basildon, Essex, which was awarded funding in 2002/03, and one in Wisbech in the Fens which was awarded funding in 2003/04.
For futher information see the links below.
Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF)
WNF is aimed at pockets of concentrated worklessness and builds on the success of the New Deal for Young People, the New Deal for Jobseekers aged 25 and over and Employment Zones. Although the proportion of people with skills and qualifications is rising, pockets of worklessness and low skills persist. WNF is an area based grant which is paid directly to the Borough council; performance is monitored through the Local Area Agreement (LAA)
In this region only Great Yarmouth qualifies for WNF. The programme commenced in April 2008 and just over £7 million has been awarded to Great Yarmouth over the next three years. Independent research identified the most effective interventions in order to prioritise actions and develop sustainable results. This led to a prioritisation exercise and the production of a commissioning strategy. Oversight and scrutiny of the WNF has been delegated to the Employment and Skills working group of the Great Yarmouth LSP.
13 projects formerly funded through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) are receiving transitional support from WNF because they meet the agreed criteria and because of their key importance to Great Yarmouth.
