Community contracts - refreshing or recycling?
Are Community Contracts just another in a long line of recycled ideas indicative of a deeper poverty of ambition at the heart of government?
Surely we have had similar pilots since at least the 1970s.
What immediately arises from the Manchester University evaluation is their caveat that it is far too early to draw many conclusions!
One conclusion we can draw, however, is that from a third sector/community sector perspective this approach is (still) incredibly top down.
A second contextual point might be – whatever happened to neighbourhood management with its focus on exactly the territory covered by community contracts?
If we want real change we have to build from where local people are at.
It follows that we need more than just warmed-up managerialism laced with rhetorical commitments to talk to people about narrowly defined service choices.
Posted on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 | This entry has 0 comments
