The research provides a 2006 picture of how NDC areas have changed since the introduction of the NDC programme, using a range of different indicators.

It includes place-based indicators of change (residents' views of their local NDC, the local community and the area, housing and the physical environment, and crime); and people-based indicators of change (work, unemployment, and incomes/finance, educational attainment, skills and training, and health).

The New Deal for Communities Programme was launched in 1998. The programme is designed to close the gaps between 39 deprived localities and the rest of the country in relation to six key outcome areas:

This research explores how the NDC areas are changing using a number of different indicators.

The research draws on two main sources:

There is clear evidence that considerable improvements have occurred in NDC areas between 2001/02 and 2006. The indicators and outcomes suggest that in general, the positive change is more obvious in relation to place rather than people.

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01/01/2007

Christina Beatty; Mike Foden; Paul Lawless; Ian Wilson Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University

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Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration