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Diversity and Neighbourhood Renewal factsheet
Neighbourhood renewal provides a platform for building strong and cohesive communities in which everyone feels they belong – regardless of race, faith, gender, age, sexual orientation and disability. This means that services need to be tailored to meet local needs.
Title: Diversity and Neighbourhood Renewal factsheet
Author: Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Number of pages: 36
Date published: March 2005
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Neighbourhood renewal cannot tackle the concerns and issues faced by one community of interest in isolation. It means encouraging participation and involvement from a wider range of people. Engaging with different communities of interest allows you to reach people who may not be accessible through a purely area-based approach – leading to more effective, more targeted delivery of neighbourhood renewal.
Diversity lies at the heart of improving services and implementing neighbourhood renewal and regeneration programmes successfully. Knowing your community and its needs means you can deliver better services and build effective, inclusive and sustainable outcomes for your area as well as responding to national targets and priorities.
The best practice examples set out in this fact sheet highlight just some of the ways everyone can get involved in the community. The groups who experience poorer access to services, communities who are marginalised or those individuals who are excluded can be brought into the policies of regeneration programmes and projects in deprived areas so that you arrive at truly inclusive neighbourhood renewal outcomes.
About the factsheet
This factsheet is aimed at:
neighbourhood renewal programmes and partnerships
local residents
regeneration practitioners and professionals
anyone from across government with an interest in neighbourhood renewal.
This factsheet will:
identify the key issues around each of the diversity themes and neighbourhood renewal
set out the legislative rights of the different communities of interest and the obligations of public authorities
signpost best practice and sources of further information
highlight the support available through Neighbourhood Renewal Advisors and funding streams.
The factsheet covers the following themes
religion
gender
disability
sexual orientation
older people
children and young people
race
Getting a copy
Download Diversity and Neighbourhood Renewal factsheet PDF 1.5Mb from the Neighbourhood Renewal website.
Last update: Thursday, July 26, 2007