Welfare Reform on the Web (September 2001): Community Regeneration - UK

FUNDING COMMUNITY GROUPS

Active Community Unit

London: 2001

Sets out proposals and options for making the government's small grants funding programmes both more integrated and more accessible to community groups of all kinds, particularly the more marginalised groups such as those from black and minority ethnic and refugee communities. Document also explains broadly how the government intends to establish and operate the new Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chests.

LOCAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS: GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

London: 2001

Document defines local strategic partnerships and discusses their cross-cutting responsibilities and their role in neighbourhood renewal.

SETTLEMENTS, SOCIAL CHANGE AND COMMUNITY ACTION: GOOD NEIGHBOURS

R. Gilchrist and T. Jeffs (eds)

London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001

Looking at the history of the settlement movement in Britain and the US, this book examines the current emphasis on ideas of community and active citizenship in social care, social policy and welfare. It starts with basic settlement concepts which it then uses to inform and centextualise contemporary practice and policy.