Barriers to Involvement: the Disconnected Worlds of Disability and Regeneration

Claire Edwards
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Claire Edwards: Department for Work and Pensions, 4th Floor, Adelphi, 1–11 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6HT

Local Economy, 2002, vol. 17, issue 2, 123-135

Abstract: Disabled people are noticeably absent from the government's regeneration agenda, despite its current emphasis on empowering and involving local communities in urban renewal. This paper explores some of the barriers to disabled people's involvement in regeneration initiatives at the local level, focusing particularly on the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB). Interviews with regeneration managers, local authority officers, disabled people and disability groups identified a range of barriers. These included a lack of strategic recognition that disabled people were ‘relevant’ to regeneration, difficulties with the SRB's centrally-prescribed outputs and timescales, a lack of accessible information for disabled people, and circumscribed local political networks which served to marginalize certain disability groups from local regeneration processes. The paper concludes by suggesting ways in which some of these barriers might be addessed.

Date: 2002
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