Community development with a care and support agenda: Is it achievable?

Abstract

Care and support agendas have tended to focus on the need to develop effective services to meet individualised needs within communities of interest. In contrast, community development and regeneration policy have concentrated on the needs of the broader ‘community’ but with little regard to support and care. Rarely do these two important policy domains meet in practice. A three‐year pilot initiative, the Hull Community Care Development Project, aimed to develop the capacity of local communities to respond to their own support and ‘community care’ needs. An independent evaluation documented how such an approach could begin to bridge community and care, and how this produced new challenges, communities prioritising broad neighbourhood issues over specific care and support concerns.

Citation

Quilgars, D. (2003), "Community development with a care and support agenda: Is it achievable?", Housing, Care and Support, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/14608790200300022