National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

The National Strategy (http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/seu/index/national_strategy.htm) is about

The purpose of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal is to tackle the unacceptably bad conditions in this country’s poor neighbourhoods.
	By focusing on the area aspects of social exclusion, it complements other social exclusion policies that look at particular groups, such as unemployed people, people from ethnic minorities, lone parents or older people, regardless of where they live.
By focusing on the social exclusion aspects of specific areas, it complements frameworks such as the Urban and Rural White Papers and local Government reform, which look at the overall needs of localities whether they are poor or not.

This work has produced agreement on the vision that, within 10 to 20 years, no-one should be seriously disadvantaged by where they live. People on low incomes should not have to suffer conditions and services that are failing, and so different from what the rest of the population receives. The vision is reflected in two long-term goals:

• In all the poorest neighbourhoods, to have common goals of lower worklessness and crime, and better health, skills, housing and physical environment.
  
• To narrow the gap on these measures between the most deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country.