1. GEOG3025 Implications for neighbourhood policy

2. GEOG3025 Implications for neighbourhood policy Lecture overview: Objectives of lecture Introductory questions Neighbourhood policy initiatives Southampton example Data futures Importance of geography Lecture summary

3. GEOG3025 Objectives Consider range of neighbourhood-based policy initiatives Review importance of neighbourhood data in this context Role of social geography

4. GEOG3025 Introductory questions… How does all this affect what happens in my neighbourhood? What data and collection geographies are needed to inform policy?

5. GEOG3025 Neighbourhood policy

6. GEOG3025 New deal for communities 17 projects in 1998; 22 in 1999 Long-term projects involving local partnerships Community involvement Evidence-based, joined-up approach Reference to baseline data and targets (‘floor targets’)

7. GEOG3025 NDC: five key themes poor job prospects high levels of crime educational under-achievement poor health problems with housing and the physical environment

8. GEOG3025 Neighbourhood renewal fund 88 authorities (50 most deprived in IMD2000, plus transitional arrangements for those previously in top 50) £450m 2004-5 Need local strategic partnerships Focus on tackling local deprivation Also community empowerment funds (£12m) Community Chest funds (£20m)

9. GEOG3025 Neighbourhood renewal fund Additional targeting on those “local authority areas that face the greatest challenge to turn around long term multiple deprivation and achieve national floor targets” (NRU) Can be spent in any way that tackles deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods – determined by LSPs.

10. GEOG3025 Floor targets (e.g.s) Jobs/Worklessness- Employment- Enterprise- Regional Performance- Rural Productivity Crime- Burglary/Vehicle crime/Robbery Education- GSCE by LEA- GSCE by School- Primary literacy and numeracy- Secondary literacy and numeracy Health- Life Expectancy- Teenage Pregnancy- Road casualties Housing and the Environment- Social Housing General- Neighbourhood Renewal

11. GEOG3025 2004/5 NRF allocations (largest) Liverpool £26m Manchester £26m Birmingham £22m Newham £17m Hackney £11m Tower Hamlets £14m

12. GEOG3025 Local neighbourhood renewal strategies Southampton 2004-5 £0.8m www.southampton-partnership.com Southampton.gov.uk

13. GEOG3025 Source: Southampton.gov.uk Areas of disadvantage in Southampton

14. GEOG3025 Thornhill priority area – e.g. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

15. GEOG3025 Wards as neighbourhoods? ‘to get an idea of what is going on at the neighbourhood level, statistics from electoral wards are often used. This is only a proxy – but at the moment it is the best one we have.’ (Social Exclusion Unit, 2001)

16. GEOG3025 Neighbourhood Statistics Service

17. GEOG3025 OA/SOA geography OAs as the building blocks for SOAs Already used for ID2004 These will form the spatial basis for new neighbourhood statistics De facto building blocks of “neighbourhood”? Future link to address level: essential to 2011 census enumeration

18. GEOG3025 Index of Deprivation 2004 www.odpm.gov.uk www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

19. GEOG3025 Importance of geography Concepts: neighbourhood focus raising geographical awareness Data collection and output: geographical methodology Analysis: geographical aspects of visualisation and change over time Theory: ongoing need for adequate theorisation of neighbourhood

20. GEOG3025 Lecture summary Pervasiveness of neighbourhood policy Local impacts Centrality of small area geographical data and indicators Importance of geography!