B8 Community

Adam Crawford, S. L. a. D. W. (2003) "Evaluation of a Contracted Community Policy Experiment		". yes A1d B8 C1b. 
	
An evaluation of the implementation and impact of an innovative community policing initiative and the challenges it faced.

Recent years have seen a new market develop for additional policing and security services. This report evaluates an innovative community policing initiative, whereby a housing association purchased additional policing from the local police to provide reassurance for residents.

This report outlines the challenges encountered in implementing the initiative and managing the expectations of residents. Based on the experiences of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust in New Earswick, York, the report explores the wider operational demands of the police that often served to undermine the parochial needs of residents and thwart the realisation of the initiative. It demonstrates how policing services contracted within a commercial arrangement can alter relations between police and public, as well as change the expectations of the service delivered.

It suggests that, unless well managed, the provision of additional policing may heighten levels of anxiety and raise the security threshold. On the basis of an in-depth three-year study, this report highlights broader lessons for those considering novel ways to address residents’ perceptions of security and sense of safety.

Associates, R. B. (1993) "New Earswick: Community Care Survey.					". yes A1a B8 C1b yes. 
	
Bryant, R. (1971). Approaches to community work: case studies of community work initiatives taken in North Kensington and York, University of York.yes A1d B8 C1a. 
	
Crossley, L. G. a. R. (2000) "Community Development: Making a Difference in Social Housing.				". yes A1d B8 B2 C1b. 
	
Feeney, D. J. (1984) "A Study of New Earswick Clubs and Societies.		". yes A3 B8 C1b. 
	Typescript thesis. Looking at how the legacy started by Joseph Rowntree in terms of recreational activities for his residents, has developed.				

Foundation, J. R. (1998) "Regenerating neighbourhoods: creating integrated and sustainable improvements ". yes A1d B2 B8 C3. 
	
Fulton, K. and C. Winfield (2011). Community engagement, Centre for Welfare Reform, The Quadrant, 99 Parkway Avenue, Parkway Business Park, Sheffield S9 4WG. yes A1d B8 B2 C2
	Examines the role of community engagement in supporting social care provision in the context of personalisation. Explores and supports the development of community organisations and support services as an intrinsic element of the community model of support. Describes the community model of support, defined as 'community brokerage'. Outlines examples of community support. Highlights two particular examples of practice - Blackburn with Darwen and York - where the local authorities have invited a wide range of people, including community networks and agencies and service and support providers, to create a level of assistance for local people. Argues that the capacity for assistance already exists, but needs to be organised in a way that makes sense to people looking to direct their own support. Identifies five practical stages that are useful in locating and building on existing community capacity: identify supports; develop a shared vision; connect and organise; commit to action; and reflect and change.

Gaster, L. and R. Crossley (2000). Community development: making a difference in social housing, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York Publishing Services Ltd, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe, York YO3 7XQ. yes A1d B2 B8 C1a
	Presents results of an evaluation of how the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust approached community development as a means of bringing about change in the community and in the; organisation. Outlines the national policy context focusing on issues relevant to housing associations - social exclusion, Best Value, tenant compacts, citizenship,; neighbourhood working, and Housing Plus. Describes the character of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust as perceived by interviewees. Describes and evaluates changes in; community development work on the Trust's York housing estates in the three years since the appointment of a community development officer. Analyses the effects of community; development on the way decisions are made and work carried out and on outcomes and added value. Highlights different models of working with communities to improve services and; include the excluded, with details of the Foxwood Neighbourhood Agreement and the development of performance indicators. Identifies lessons for future practice. Summary; available PLANEX Ref. S1806.

Kaner, J. (1965) "Voluntary worker in York: a study of recruitment and training 1963/64". York. yes A1d B8 C1a. ((Y361))
	
Law, J. (1972). A community work initiative on a low-status council estate in York, University of York Thesis - JB Morrell.yes A1b B8 C1b. 
	
Page, D. (2006). Respect and renewal: a study of neighbourhood social regeneration, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. yes A1e B1 B8 C3
	Focuses on the Partnership Initiatives for Communities (PICs) programme, which aimed to look for the causes of social exclusion in three disadvantaged communities in council; estates in need of modernisation, and to see what could be done to tackle these problems through a soft regeneration approach, by investing in people-based projects in each of; the areas. Provides an overview of the policy context of PICs. Discusses two significant strands of theory relating to current area regeneration policy. Looks at the choice; of the three areas included in the PICs programme - Wakefield, York and the London Borough of Lewisham. Summarises the findings of the initial research. Reports the main; problem issues encountered and the social dynamics on each of the estates. Compares and contrasts the experiences of social exclusion in each of the three areas. Draws some; lessons from the outcomes of the PICs programme. Summary available, see PLANEX Ref. A6771.