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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(4):405-418; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi085
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National perspectives

Community development policy and legislation: The Dutch case

Koos Vos, Former General Manager

Verwey-Jonker Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands

Address for correspondence: Fred Hendriklaan 103, 5212 BC I-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; email: jtfvos@wanadoo.nl

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   Prelude
 
Even before World War II, the settlement movement in the United Kingdom inspired people in the Netherlands to establish community and neighbourhood centres in urban as well as in rural areas, which developed a wide range of social cultural activities including support for the unemployed. In 1926 the first community development agency appeared in the northern province of Drente, where many workers from the peat areas were unemployed, poor and badly housed. The Central Association for the community development in Drenthe (Centrale Vereeniging voor de opbouw van Drenthe) had as a major goal the promotion of the cultural, economic and sanitary reconstruction of Drente. One of the principles adopted was the involvement of the people themselves: participation alongside the contribution of professionals, effectively community development workers ‘avant la lettre’. The association's activities showed a wide range of services, for example, a settlement centres, social work, care for deprived children and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Community development in the post-war period: adjustment
 

   Displacement of goals: From adjustment to democratization
 

   Transition
 

   A legal basis: A law on welfare
 

   From welfare policy to local social policy
 

   Content of local social policy
 

   Policy concerning the big cities
 

   New legislation?
 

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