Funding
Working Neighbourhoods Fund
As
part of a concerted drive to get people off welfare and into
training and work the Government has decided to establish a new
Working Neighbourhoods Fund which will focus on the most deprived
areas and which will support local authorities and communities in
their efforts to tackle worklessness and the other elements of
deprivation.
This new fund will replace Communities and
Local Government’s Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and incorporates the
Department for Work and Pension’s Deprived Areas Fund – to create a
single fund at the local level. This fund will include a
significant element of reward grant, which will be paid to Local
Authorities and communities which are most successful in tackling
worklessness and increasing skills and enterprise levels.
The Working Neighbourhoods Fund is not just
about money. It is about It is about new ways of
working...new ways of working. Through the new Local
Government Performance Framework and reforms to local government
finance, local authorities have greater flexibilities to achieve
the objectives which are most important to them and to local
people. At the same time changes to our welfare to work programmes
are ensuring they can be more tailored to the needs of individuals
and communities.
For more information on the Working
Neighbourhoods fund, visit the communities.gov.uk website:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/566881.pdf>