Publications

Reducing Inequality Review

The Reducing Inequality Review, for Brighton & Hove Council and the 2020 Community Partnership (LSP) analysed existing evidence on dimensions of inequality in the city, across neighbourhoods, groups and communities of interest, before proceeding to review the contribution of local policies in reducing inequalities and disadvantage and consider future priorities. 
 
The review was undertaken jointly by Educe and Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), and carried out in two phases:
  • Phase one was essentially a needs assessment for the city, intended to set the scene for Phase two.
  • Phase two offered recommendations for approaches and strategies for reducing inequality in the city, which fed directly into the preparation of the new Local Area Agreement (LAA)

    Read more: Reducing Inequality Review

 

Learning to Deliver Digests

Bi-monthly issues of the Learning to Deliver Digest bring together developments in policy and practice relevant to managers and practitioners whose roles concern driving change and improvement in partnership settings. Latest Digest: July 2009 (355KB)

 
Web links are provided for all items mentioned. Signposted documents include not only official publications and websites but also a variety of other materials which help readers ‘keep up with and ahead of the game’ .

Each Digest features notes on a handful of key developments in recent weeks and a section dedicated to LAA matters. These are followed by a fuller list of documents, tools and other resources – ranging across central and local government; climate change; community empowerment; community safety; children and young people;   economic development, skills and worklessness; health; housing; neighbourhood renewal and social exclusion; planning & transport; rural development; and the third sector. There are also cross-cutting themes of efficiency and improvement;  community empowerment;  and equality, diversity and cohesion.

The Digest is produced for the Learning to Deliver programme (Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands) and is funded by Communities and Local Government.
   

Learning to Deliver - support for Local Area Agreements in the West Midlands

Current awareness digests: each issue features developments in policy and practice relevant to people playing key roles in driving change and improvement in LSPs and LAAs.
Recent briefings from the programme on:
Five Steps to Better Outcomes - a guide to delivery planning, assisting local partners in making a success of Local Area Agreements, working out how best to achieve community outcomes.
   

Changing practices: employers and deprived areas

Changing Practices: A Good Practice Guide for Businesses Locating in Deprived Areas - a case study-based guide highlighting how businesses can adapt their practices to bring benefits for the company and benefits for the community in regeneration areas. Produced for the British Retail Consortium and the then ODPM Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, and published by Communities and Local Government (Research Report 6).

Summary also available from CLG, plus the Part 2 Case studies (download here pdf 794KB).
   

Brokering business connections

Evaluation of the Business Broker Programme - final report (Brokering Business Connections) for Business in the Community and the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on the national pilot programme, testing out the role of Business Brokers supporting business involvement in Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) and neighbourhood renewal.

Copies of summary report available for download from the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and from Business in the Community. Full report here (pdf 700KB)

More information on current CLG policy on private sector engagement here.

   

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