Jargon Buster
Baseline:
A measurement of the starting conditions, for example numbers unemployed, before a programme is undertaken. The benefits of a programme can be assessed over time by comparing the baseline with more up to date figures.
Bending main programmes:
Tackling deprivation by focusing local agency and government department spending more specifically on the most deprived areas.
Better Neighbourhoods Initiative:
The purpose of the Better Neighbourhoods Initiative is to improve the quality of life in our most deprived neighbourhoods.
BME:
Black and Minority Ethnic
Building Schools for the Future:
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a new strategic approach to capital investment in school buildings that will create the environment for the Government's agenda of educational transformation.
Capacity building:
Support, techniques and initiatives which aim to build the capacity of individuals or organisations within communities to contribute effectively to regeneration projects.
Communities and Local Government:
This is the successor department to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). It is an expanded department with a new remit to promote community cohesion and equality, as well as responsibility for housing, urban regeneration, planning and local government.
Community Council:
This aims to represent all people in the area without prejudice: they are non-party political and non-sectarian. They must call for nominations publicly and hold contested elections. Community Councils are regularly consulted by the local authority and public bodies on a wide range of issues which affect their area, such as planning, environment and health.
Community Safety Unit:
A multi-disciplinary team in the council responding to crime issues.
Connexions:
Service for 13-19 year olds wanting advice on getting to where you want to be in life. It also provides support up to the age of 25 for young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities (or both).
Crime Reduction Partnerships:
Statutory partnerships formed as a consequence of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which required the police and local authorities and others to work together to tackle crime and disorder within a local authority area.
Every Child Matters:
A Green paper which sets out the Government's aim of ensuring that every child and young person has the opportunity to fill their potential.
Extended Schools Services:
An extended school is one that provides a range of services and activities often beyond the school day to help meet the needs of its pupils, their families and the wider community. The government plans for all schools to have extended provision by 2010.
Floor Targets:
Deprivation will be tackled through the bending of main departmental programmes such as the police and health services, to focus more specifically on the most deprived areas. Departments now have minimum targets to meet, which means that, for the first time, they will be judged on the areas where they are doing worst, and not just on averages.
Forward strategy:
Arrangements which will continue the process of renewal and development after funding from the renewal programme stops. Also called an exit, continuation or succession strategy.
Household Improvement Programme:
To support households to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Local Area Agreements (LAAs):
Simplify the number of central government funding streams going into an area, helping to effectively join up service delivery and allow greater flexibility for local solutions and circumstance. They are agreements, struck between central government and upper tier local authorities and major delivery partners in an area (working through LSPs).
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs):
A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a single non-statutory, multi-agency body, which matches local authority boundaries, and aims to bring together at a local level the different parts of the public, private, community and voluntary sectors.
London Development Agency (LDA):
The economic development arm of the Greater London Authority.
Mainstreaming:
Realigning the allocation of mainstream resources - such as the police and health services - to better target the most deprived areas.
Milestones:
Key events with dates, marking stages in the progress of a project or programme.
Neighbourhood Management:
A way of encouraging service providers to improve the quality of services delivered in deprived neighbourhoods.
Outputs:
Measure what was directly produced by the regeneration programme, such as additional training places or more houses.
Outcomes:
Measure the longer term changes in an area that were brought about by the regeneration programme.
PCT:
Primary Care Trust. Working in Partnership to improve health and develop better health and social care services.
Performance Management Framework:
A self-assessment model designed to help neighbourhood management initiatives assess their achievements and identify priorities for improvement.
Registered Social Landlords (RSLs):
Landlords of social housing that are registered with the Housing Corporation. Most are housing associations but they also include trusts, co-operatives and companies.
Section 106 agreements:
Negotiated agreements between a planning authority and a developer to provide, for example, low cost housing or community facilities in return for the granting of planning permission.
Social Enterprise:
Organisations which are established to provide services and/or employment in a local community. Their focus is about building the community and the local economy, but doing so in a business-like way as independent and self-supporting organisations.
Social exclusion:
The government defines social exclusion as being a shorthand label for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. It can also have a wider meaning which encompasses the exclusion of people from the normal exchanges, practices and rights of society.
Street Wardens:
Provide a uniformed, semi-official presence in a residential area with the aim of improving quality of life. Wardens can promote community safety, assist with environmental improvements and housing management, and also contribute to community development.
Sure Start:
A government scheme which aims to improve the health and well-being of families and children before and from birth, to four years old.
Worknet:
A Neighbourhood based employment and training network.