ASSESSING THE PARTICIPATORY POTENTIAL OF BRITAIN'S NEW DEAL FOR COMMUNITIES

John Wright, Jayne Parry, Jonathan Mathers, Su Jones and Jim Orford

Policy Studies, 2006, vol. 27, issue 4, 347-361

Abstract: Community participation is a key characteristic of the British Labour Government's New Deal for Communities (NDC). However, the National Evaluation reports serious difficulties involving local communities in the programme. This article assesses the NDC's potential as a site for bottom-up community participation by reviewing government policy guidance, programme notes and strategy documents. We identify themes and mechanisms within the programme that facilitate and limit participation. It is argued that if NDC is a community-led programme, it is community-led in the sense that government decides how the community will be involved, why they will be involved, what they will do and how they will do it.

Date: 2006
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