Neighbourhood Resource Centre for Central England

Neighbourhood Review

As part of our continuing support to neighbourhood working, we have carried out extensive research in an attempt to define what is actually meant by neighbourhood working and its characteristics, the range and scope of neighbourhood working practices within the context of the West Midlands and future support needs of those localities.  This research consists of three phases, with phase one and two already having been completed and phase three still to be undertaken.

Phase one involved secondary desk-based research identifying existing information on neighbourhood working.  Phase two involved primary research of those partners in the fourteen localities with responsibility for planning and delivering neighbourhood working.  Phase three will be the implementation of some of these programmes to address the most common gaps identified in Phases one and two of the research and subsequently analyse how successful they have been.

Following phases one and two, we have produced a report of our findings entitled "One Size Doesn't Fit All".  You can download a copy of the Executive Summary below.