What we do
We work to help improve the effectiveness of people and organisations trying to achieve the Scottish Executive's Closing the Opportunity Gap objectives and targets including a specific target to:
“promote community regeneration of the most deprived neighbourhoods, through improvements by 2008 in employability, education, health, access to local services and quality of the local environment”
We work to support those involved in community regeneration to improve their effectiveness by identifying:
• what works and what doesn’t work and supporting them to put this into practice
• new approaches to community regeneration and supporting them to implement these
• the skills needed and supporting them to obtain these.
Our work focuses on helping people and organisations to improve approaches to:
• delivering and accessing local services in deprived communities
• reducing health inequalities
• increasing access to jobs
• increasing the quality of the local environment, and,
• improving education in deprived areas.
We will do this by putting in place programmes that support improvements in partnership working, mainstreaming services, demonstrating impact and community engagement; build assets within communities; develop the skills of people involved; identify effective practice; and improve linkages between health, employability, educational and sustainable development programmes.
See also how we will do this.
