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Birmingham
71. Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal (YEER)

71.1. Short description In 2010 The Future Melting Pot (TFMP) set up the YEER pilot project (for 1 year) to provide business support to black and minority ethnic individuals who were not in employment, education or training (NEET) with the main aim of participants being able to set up their own enterprises. YEER was designed…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Birmingham
72. Lone parent support

72.1. Short description The lone parent support project was delivered by Employment Needs Training Agency (ENTA) and partners, and offered a holistic approach to addressing barriers to work for lone parents. Once contacted people were assessed, agreed an action plan and then received on-going support and mentoring from the project team (this continued once they…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Birmingham
73. Targeted discretionary housing payments (TDHP)

73.1. Short description The aim of the TDHP project was to support people from areas of high levels of unemployment and deprivation in Birmingham in the transition from welfare to work. Having managed to overcome hurdles associated with getting a job in the first place, people may be faced with a series of issues, some…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Birmingham
74. Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT)

74.1. Short description BCC devised a way of delivering affordable but high-quality new homes that limited financial risk through the formation of BMHT. Properties on BMHT sites were a mixture of council homes and those for outright sale built on council-owned land. An innovative financial model was developed in consultation with contractors that reduced upfront…

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Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent)

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Dover
75. Family Learning at the ANP

75.1. Short description Aylesham, near Dover, was affected by the vacuum left by the colliery closure at Snowdown in 1989. From the community perspective, the problems created by the mine closure were compounded by a succession of further setbacks including the closure of the secondary school in Aylesham, closure of the library, a reduction in…

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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall

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Dover
76. Happy Feet Pre-School

76.1. Short description The Happy Feet Pre-school is a registered charity located in one of Dover town’s more underprivileged neighbourhoods. The pre-school is in a very deprived area and the surrounding area suffers from social and economic problems. There is a lot of unemployment, drug addiction, alcoholism and so on. Anti-social behaviour and vandalism are…

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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall

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Dover
Dover – Conclusions

Sustainability For the ANP sustainability is potentially difficult. The relatively large grants from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust that ANP benefited from in the past are no longer available. Instead loans are being offered, but projects such as ANP are wary of entering into these types of obligations. Similarly, they feel that operating by contracts to…

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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall

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Dover
77. EKH

77.1. Short description In 2002, Inspectors classed the Housing Management Service provided by DDC as poor, with poor prospects for improvement. The inspection team gave the service no stars. The rating may be from 0-3, where 0 is poor and 3 is excellent. Action was needed to do more to make the Council’s homes meet…

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Lavinia Mitton, Nadia Brookes and Jeremy Kendall

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Varaždin
Varaždin – Conclusions

Selected examples of social innovation and insights discovered via the research, show that in the city of Varaždin the area of social policy public administration has developed the capacity to understand the relevant issues. Their active work provides a framework for cooperation and encourages development of new programmes. In our case, it turned out that…

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Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina (Faculty of law, Zagreb)

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Varaždin
7. Non-profit housing organisation

7.1. Short description: context Institutional arrangement for housing policy at the local level, after the political turmoil in 1990, has been changed profoundly. Housing policy as a clear responsibility of different levels of state administration helping people to meet housing needs has disappeared. In that time, they were responsibility of local administration to sell public…

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Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina (Faculty of law, Zagreb)

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