Sharper focus for neighbourhoods

The government’s neighbourhood renewal unit has promised to
generate new sources of data to help understand the changing nature
of deprived communities and assess the impact of the National
Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal.

The move is outlined in the NRU’s research and development
division’s draft research strategy for 2002-4.

It also pledges to sharpen the neighbourhood focus of other
sources of data, and analyse data on delivery in health, crime,
housing, and employment targets to gauge other government
departments’ contributions towards achieving the aims of the
national strategy.

Draft research strategy from
www.neighbourhood.odpm.gov.uk/consult/research/pdf/research_consult.pdf

The consultation ends on 19 July.