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| Active Communities Unit (ACU) |
| A Home Office department which encourages development of the voluntary and community sectors within deprived areas. |
| A measurement technique to assess the added value of a project over and above what would have happened without it. |
| Anti Poverty Strategy (APS) |
| A co-ordinated approach to tackling poverty through benefit advice, debt management and improved access to social work and housing services. |
| In areas where economic, social and environmental problems have led to community exclusion, area based initiatives bring together different agencies to break the cycle and improve quality of life, but have been criticized for often creating confusion and duplication. |
| Area Investment Framework (AIF) |
| Establish regeneration priorities for an area with the aim of targeting funding from Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). |
| Arm’s Length Management Organisation (ALMO) |
| A separate but wholly owned company set up by local authorities to manage social housing. |
| The Government's inspection and assessment organization which previously oversaw Best Value and now oversees Comprehensivee Performance Assessment of various public organisations. |
| The starting point of a project against which the project’s success will be measured to assess improvements and successes. |
| A government scheme which acknowledges excellence and innovation in particular services within local government. |
| Tackling deprivation by focusing local agency and government department spending more specifically on the most deprived areas. |
| A framework, based on a set of nationally determined indicators to help local authorities measure, manage and improve their performance. Replaced by the Comprehensive Performance Assessment. |
| Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) |
| Black and Minority Ethnic. |
| The BRE Trust (formerly called the Foundation for the Built Environment) is a charitable company whose objectives are through research and education, to advance knowledge, innovation and communication in all matters concerning the built environment for public benefit. |
| Land that has been previously developed. |
| Building Communities Initiative (BCI) |
| An initiative to get local communities to participate in housing regeneration projects. |
| Business Broker Scheme (BBS) |
| Administered by Business in the Community and the British Chambers of Commerce, BBSs aim to encourage businesses to become more involved in neighbourhood renewal. |
| Business Improvement District (BID) |
| A part of an urban area where local businesses pay additional rates to create improvements in services such as street cleaning, landscaping or crime reduction. |
| Giving individuals or organisations within communities the skills and confidence to become more involved in regeneration projects. |
| Money spent on the purchase of fixed assets such as buildings, roads and equipment. |
| Centre for Construction Innovation (CCI) |
| Promotes the Rethinking Construction agenda in the Northwest. |
| City Growth Strategy Initiative (CGSI) |
| A scheme to develop and implement inner city strategies which put enterprise and business at the heart of regeneration. |
| Partnerships launched in 1993 to enhance the cities of Birmingham, London and Manchester – which has now expanded to include Salford, Trafford, Tameside and Stockport. |
| An economic development strategy which places cities at the core of economic regeneration within the area they serve and believes poorly functioning cities act as a brake on wider regional development. A key aspect of the Northwern Way. |
| Closed-Circuit Television Initiative (CCTVI) |
| Deterring or combating local crime and disorder through the use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in areas with significant crime and disorder problems. |
| Communities and Local Government |
| Previously the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). Communities and Local Government is working hard to create thriving, sustainable, vibrant communities that improve everyone's quality of life. Communities and Local Government sets UK policy on local government, housing, urban regeneration, planning and fire and rescue. We have responsibility for all race equality and community cohesion related issues across Great Britain and for building regulations, fire safety and some housing issues in England and Wales. The rest of our work applies only to England. |
| Organisation owned within the community which was established to provide services and/or employment in a local community. Aims to enhance the community and the local economy. |
| A policy objective to ensure that all ethnic groups and communities within an area have a shared agenda, sense of belonging and purpose. |
| Community Empowerment Network (CEN) |
| Aims to help community and voluntary groups to become empowered in order to participate in Local Strategic Partnerships and neighbourhood renewal. Administered by Community Empowerment Networks set up by the voluntary and community sectors in Neighbourhood RENEWal Fund areas |
| The National Lottery Charities Board, now subsumed within the Big Lottery Fund |
| Community Housing Task Force (CHTF) |
| A Government organisation developed to support councils through option appraisal and development of chosen options such as ALMO (Arm’s Length Management Organisation). |
| Community Legal Service Partnerships (CLSP) |
| Local networks of providers of legal services, supported by coordinated funding and delivering services to local communities based on identified priority need. |
| Local authority and partner organisation liaison to improve community well-being and involve communities in the decisions on local services. |
| Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP) plan for improving the economic, environmental and social well being of local areas and by which public bodies are expected to coordinate the actions of the public, private voluntary and community organisations that operate locally. |
| Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) |
| Government inspection and assessment process for councils with a scorecard approach to how well key services and corporate support is delivered. Each council is placed in one of four bands from ‘poor’ to ‘excellent’. |
| The way a town relates to others in the region and beyond, for example by road, rail and air and also by people moving into and out of the town to access services. |
| Aims to achieve a step change in construction best practice and design by tackling the market failures in the sector and selling the business case for continuous improvement. |
| A grouping of the major English cities outside London which has advanced the policy of balanced economic development based on city-regions. |
| Organisations which provide a bridge between schools and cultural organisations, enabling pupils to work with creative professional organisations and to develop creative skills. |
| Creative Spaces Initiative |
| A programme run by The Architectural Foundation. |
| Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) |
| Statutory partnerships formed following 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. |
| A national crime reduction organisation and charity providing advice and help to a wide range of professional and voluntary agencies to support their work in reducing crime and the fear of crime within local communities. |
| Crime Reduction Programme |
| A Government funded programme which consists of a series of diverse initiatives which have been shown to be effective at reducing crime or the fear of crime. |
| Cumbria Vision is the dynamic strategic organisation charged with leading the economic regeneration of Cumbria. |
| A programme measurement technique which identifies improvements that would have occurred naturally without the intervention of the programme. |
| The delivery plan will bring together all the main documents produced in phase 1. It will contain a detailed assessment of each of the project ideas that have been identified as priorities, as well as a summary of other projects that the town team has identified for future attention. |
| Guidelines prepared by local authorities to coordinate and advise developers on the standards that are expected, especially within the public realm - e.g. a design guide may encourage windows for the natural surveillance of each street, preventing buildings from ‘turning their back’. |
| Design Quality Indicator (DQI) |
| A process for evaluating design quality of buildings that can be used to contribute to improving the quality of our built environment. |
| A network of independent, not-for-profit, community-based organisations which are engaged in the economic, environmental & social regeneration of an area. |
| Development Trusts Association (DTA) |
| Promotes the work of development trusts, contributes to public policy and lobbies central and local government. |
| The annual percentage rate at which the value of money reduces over time to give a present day value. Usually only used for funding calculations in very big projects. |
| Extent to which the added value of a regeneration project is reduced by causing existing activity to relocate or be replaced. |
| Early Excellence Centre (EEC) |
| Offer examples of best practice in pre-school and early years education in deprived areas. |
| Education Action Zone (EAZ) |
| Defined areas with high levels of deprivation and low educational attainment which are in receipt of grants to raise education standards. |
| Chairman of the Construction Task Force and author of the Rethinking Construction Report 1998 which aimed to improve efficiency and value within the construction industry and encourage a focus on people and communities. More recently chaired a second task force whose report, ‘Skills for Sustainable Communities’, was published in 2004. |
| Areas where additional money is available to help the long term unemployed into work. |
| English Cities Fund (ECF) |
| A scheme designed to attract private sector funds into neglected cities. |
| English Partnerships (EP) |
| The national regeneration agency, helping to support high quality sustainable growth in England and now working closely with the Housing Corporation on the Sustainable Communities Plan. |
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