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Searching For The Impact Of Involvement: Evidence From NDC Areas

Involving and engaging the public in government and public services has been a focus of the Labour government since 1997. However, when looking at the actual impact of involving and engaging communities, the evidence is quite thin on the ground, tending to be based on individual case studies, and only providing a partial view.

This paper explores the evidence from the New Deal for Communities Household Survey, which Ipsos MORI conduct on behalf of Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit at CLG.

The paper is set to be published in Autumn 2007.

Using Research to Help Deliver Regeneration: A Short Guide

This short booklet offers some food for thought about some of the ways that research can be used to best effect in regeneration and planning projects. It highlights various methodologies that can be used at different programme stages and includes case studies illustrating how some of these methods have been used to benefit projects and the communities in which they take place.

2006 New Deal for Communities Household Survey

The initial findings from the 2006 New Deal for Communities Household Survey data have now been released by Communities and Local Government (CLG). The Regeneration and Planning team worked as part of a consortium led by the Centre for Economic and Social Research and with researchers in the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit at CLG. The household survey data will be deposited shortly in the ESRC data archive.

An Overview of Change Data 2006: This report explores how NDC areas are changing using a range of different indicators. It draws on two main sources: the 2002, 2004 and 2006 Ipsos MORI Household Surveys; and administrative data collated and analysed by the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at Oxford University.

The Moving Escalator? Patterns of Residential Mobility in NDC area: The analysis presented in this report is based on a sample of those moving out of NDC areas between 2002 and 2004. It provides important insights into the motivations and outcomes for residents who have moved out of NDC areas.

Further information on the evaluation can be found on the NDC evaluation web site and NDC Partnerships can also analyse data on the Ipsos MORI NDC Extranet

 Understanding Regeneration — Summer 2006 pdf, 2.25MB

• New Deal for Communities
• New Rules of Engagement
• Involving Communities in the Planning Process
• Physical capital in regeneration areas
• Participation Unit

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 Never Mind The Ballots — Where Have All The Voters Gone? pdf, 650KB

Bobby Duffy looks at why residents in areas with the worst problems show the least interest in who governs them, and examines trend in participation in deprived areas.

This article first appeared in New Start magazine

Bobby Duffy July 2005

Unhappy Places

How local people feel about their area is crucial to understanding the success of local regeneration projects, and features prominently in targets set for monitoring progress in an area. But new analysis suggests we have a very simplistic view of how these views are formed and how we should interpret survey results.

Using data from Ipsos MORI surveys for a range of local authorities, we can see that satisfaction with an area generally decreases as the level of deprivation increases. The fact that relatively deprived council districts are less happy places to live may not seem that surprising, but the strength of the relationship is.

Bobby Duffy August 2002

 Employing Local Residents As Interviewers pdf, 180K

This article reviews the experience of Ipsos MORI's Research Methods Unit of training local people to complete their own interviewing in regeneration areas.

Bobby Duffy and Rachel Williams February 2002

 Answering The Really Difficult Questions: The Role Of Local Social Surveys In Assessing The Impact Of Regeneration Initiatives pdf, 500KB

This discussion paper from the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge looks at the theoretical and practical considerations when designing social surveys aimed at providing evidence for Area Based Regeneration Initiatives, such as SRB or NDC.

Bobby Duffy, John Rhodes, Peter Tyler, Rachel Williams and Angela Brennan January 2002

 Satisfaction And Expectations: Attitudes To Public Services In Deprived Areas pdf, 166KB

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widely thought that public services meet the needs of residents less well in deprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed on services being greater and the services themselves being of a lower quality. This paper looks at the use, importance and ratings of a range of services by residents in deprived and other areas, using data from a large national survey, the People's Panel. A straightforward analysis confirms points made elsewhere, and adds some new perspectives …

Bobby Duffy December 2000

 More Questions Than Answers? Researching Regeneration, Urban Environment Today pdf, 25K

Survey research can provide a lot more than simple monitoring and evaluation data. With a little additional effort it can have a real impact on the development of targeted policies. Research will not provide all the answers — but it should encourage you to question what you are currently doing. This article outlines some of the additional value research can add to the regeneration process, including benchmarking and constructing "typologies" through further analysis of the data. To bring these issues to life, it draws on the experience of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute using real-life examples.

Bobby Duffy September 1999

Making Estates Work pdf, 23K

In association with the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at the University of Birmingham the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute conducted a household survey designed to answer the question, "What sorts of things make some areas better to live in than others?" In particular, the research aimed to look at which factors influence the development of a sense of community and which contribute to the popularity of estates and ultimately their sustainability.

The study was commissioned by Southwark Housing and included interviews on 10 estates in the Borough. It found that sustainable communities are fostered by a diverse range of factors, including the existence of natural focal areas, physical improvements to existing homes, the availability of facilities for children and young people, involvement of residents in the running and future planning of their estates, attention to crime prevention in estate design as well as partnerships with the police

Toby Taper and Bobby Duffy