
Rethinking Community Practice
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Content
- Intro
- Rethinking Community Practice
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- What is community practice?
- The community involvement trajectory
- From one-way provision to co-production
- The neighbourhood focus
- The basic unit: the community group
- Emergence of community practice
- Growth and setback
- Can neighbourhoods be transformed?
- Can community development lead?
- Terminological ground-clearing
- Towards a new synthesis
- 2. National policy on community involvement - the historical journey
- The journey so far
- The City Challenge incubator
- The Single Regeneration Budget breakthrough
- The Community Development Foundation lever
- New Labour
- Neighbourhood Renewal, Community Strategies and Local Strategic Partnerships
- Maturity, divergence and disruption
- Coalition government: from New Labour to big society32
- Footholds for the future
- 3. Community practice and the state
- The problem of scale
- Provision and participation
- The crystallisation of community development
- Community development as an occupation
- State use of community practice
- A schizoid tradition - or a skilled balancing act?
- The ambivalent effects of radicalism
- Fuzzy orthodoxy
- Democracy needs community practice but does not guarantee it
- 4. What happens in communities
- What good looks like
- Fundamental building blocks: community groups
- Productivity of the community sector
- Essential conditions for community groups
- Networks
- How people interact in groups
- How many community groups are there? How many should there be?
- How much volunteering?
- Reaching the uninvolved
- Sidelights from organisational theory
- Reality check: picturing interaction
- 5. Towards neighbourhood strategy
- Overcoming fragmentation
- A vision of sustainability
- Communities of interest and identity
- Economic context
- Regeneration
- Adapting to austerity
- Precedents and models
- Inside out and outside in the neighbourhood
- Joining up the community perspective
- Joining up the front line
- A holistic view with some holes in it
- Community and complexity
- Snakes and ladders
- 6. Building partnership
- Transformative neighbourhoods?
- Interlocking systems
- Neighbourhood partnerships: who drives?
- Teamwork and leadership
- Structure and coordination
- Supporting community groups
- Power in partnerships
- Pitfalls
- Does the big society theme help?
- Principles to take forward
- 7. Different perspectives
- Multiple pathways
- Story one: A political initiative
- Story two: A community health project
- Commentary
- 8. Outcomes and evidence
- The evidence imperative
- Cost and quality: the Conservative approach in the 1980s and 1990s
- Continuity and change under early New Labour
- The community practice response
- Generic community practice outcomes can be predicted
- Changing the community practice evaluation culture
- The indicators breakthrough
- Community influence and cohesion
- The relationship between community groups and local public bodies
- Sifting the responses
- Low baseline - high potential
- Building local evidence
- Cost benefits
- 9. Conclusion - strategy for community practice
- The policy chain
- Neighbourhoods at the centre
- Neighbourhood partnerships
- Principles for strategy
- From community development to community practice
- Community development leadership and change
- How much planning?
- Twelve pillars of strategy
- Restoring vision
- References
- Index
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