Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in Leeds. Kirkside East is a large,mainly white, council estate in Leeds. The Valley is a mixed tenure, mixedincome, ethnically diverse area, stretching out of Sheffield city...

The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) is interviewing 200 families withchildren (under the ages of 18) in four low-income areas in England. Through successiverounds of interviews we are trying to understand how area conditions and area changes affectpeople who live locally. We are...