Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK.One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Areadeprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviewsthe different results produced by these indices. It then examines...

Area-based polices have become a significant part of the new LabourGovernment’s approach to tackling social exclusion. This paper reviewsthe long-running debate about whether area-based policies can make asignificant impact on poverty and social exclusion. There is a strongtradition of...

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three...

This report was jointly commissioned by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) in the Office ofthe Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Economic and Social Research Council. It containsboth full and summary reports of a literature review of neighbourhood change, undertaken withthe primary aim of...

‘Places Apart?’ is the first report of CASE’s study of disadvantaged areas. The study aims to establishand explain the current direction of change in the poorest areas in the country, where social exclusionis concentrated. Are such areas recovering or getting worse ? And how are they...

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...