Social focus for regional agencies

The government has underlined its commitment
to funding social regeneration projects, promising they will
feature prominently in regional development agencies’
activities.

A
joint statement from the Department for Transport, Local Government
and the Regions, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the
country’s eight regional development agencies states that all RDAs
are “designed to tackle social exclusion and help narrow the gap
between our most deprived communities and the rest of
society”.

The
statement is intended to reassure the voluntary sector that the
single pot of funding for regeneration, introduced this month, will
not see social regeneration projects lose out.