Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(3):301-312; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi019
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Empowered or over-powered? The real experiences of local participation in the UK's New Deal for Communities
Institute of Health and Social Care, APU, Cambridge, UK
Address for correspondence: a.dinham{at}apu.ac.uk
The notion of participation has growing currency at many levels of social policy in the UK where the Labour government uses it to denote the engagement of local people in decision-making about the services and structures which affect their daily lives. In particular, local participation is given as the distinctive feature of the UK government's flagship initiative for neighbourhood renewal, the New Deal for Communities, but there is little known about what this means in practice for the local people it affects.
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