Examines three main processes within the programme:

Examines targets, activities, change data, and policy implications, focusing on the main outcome areas: housing and the physical environment, employment, finance and enterprise, crime and disorder, health and education.

Discusses two programme-wide considerations: spend and outputs; and evidence of impact change during the first phase of the evaluation.

The national evaluation was commissioned in order to undertake a "summative" evaluation to identify the impact, cost-effectiveness, and value-for-money of the NDC programme. NDC is a central government programme with the main aim of reducing the gaps between some of the poorest neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. The study aimed to support each Partnership through informed feedback and NDC area specific data, the ‘formative’ element to the evaluation. Set out to enhance the evidence base with regard to "what works and why" in relation to neighbourhood renewal.

The research employed a range of data collection tasks and analytical techniques including case study work, focus groups, and both business and project beneficiary surveys. The researchers conducted 2 random sample household surveys, 2002 and 2004, and interviews to constitute the longitudinal sample. They identified secondary and administrative data from a number of sources.

Contends that in the New Deal for Communities there has been as much progress as might have been reasonably expected.

Commitments have been made in relation to the three key processes:

Suggests the evidence of ultimate outcomes is relatively muted from the first half of the programme.

NDC National Evaluation, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
Mr Paul Lawless (Director, NDC National Evaluation), tel. +44 (0) 114 225 3529

01/11/2005

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Paul Lawless

research

Urban Policy