Community Development - Policy and Practice
Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development
A Practical Guide
This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.
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East Enders
Family and community in East London
This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood relations (including race relations), through the eyes of the local community. Using an up-to-date account of life in East London, the authors illustrate how cities faced with neighbourhoods in decline are changing.
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Community Work
Theory into Practice
This highly accessible guide equips community work and related professionals and students to make the best use of theory in their work. Linking contemporary theory and practice, the book guides the reader through such diverse areas as young people, adult learning, health, social media and leadership in community work.
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Hearing the Voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
Inclusive Community Development
This book charts Gypsies Romany and Travellers community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations which support them. It describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intersectional discrimination across Europe.
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Poverty Street
The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal
Poverty street addresses one of the UK's major social policy concerns: the gap between the poorest neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. It is an account of neighbourhood decline, a portrait of conditions in the most disadvantaged areas and an up-to-date analysis of the impact of the government's neighbourhood renewal policies.
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The Impact of Community Work
How to Gather Evidence
This book provides practical guidance for professionals and pre-qualifying students on how to gather and generate evidence of the impact of projects in the community. It includes case studies from a range of community settings and is full of easy to implement ideas, tools and examples of methods to demonstrate the impact of work in the community.
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Pathways to Recovery and Desistance
The Role of the Social Contagion of Hope
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Using case studies and a strengths-based approach Best puts forward a new recovery and reintegration model for substance users and offenders leaving prison which emphasizes the importance of long-term recovery and the role that communities and peers play in the process.
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Inside Social Enterprise
Looking to the Future
A lively and clear introduction to social enterprise, including nearly forty interviews with the most influential and experienced social enterprise practitioners, supporters, thinkers and policy makers.
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Planning with children for better communities
The challenge to professionals
In addition to clarifying why the issue of children's participation should be prioritised, this book uses examples and case studies from a variety of professions and disciplines in order to explain different methods that can be used to support participation.
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Changing neighbourhoods
Lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme
This report follows the progress of twenty very different neighbourhood organisations across three countries to explore the opportunities and challenges of neighbourhood renewal from a community perspective.
A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk
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Urban regeneration through partnership
A study in nine urban regions in England, Scotland and Wales
This report provides an in-depth study of factors that influence the effectiveness of urban regeneration partnerships, and how they work within the national policy context. It highlights the key lessons of partnership, exploring good practice in leadership, visioning and consensus building,
and the translation of vision into workable objectives.
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Twenty-five years on twenty estates
Turning the tide?
This report covers developments in 20 less popular and more problematic council estates, based on four waves of research since 1980.
It presents unique evidence of the impact of 25 years of social change and policy from Thatcher to Blair, a period in which the number of British council homes halved.
A free pdf is available at www.jrf.org.uk
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