A Neighbourhood-level View of Area-Based Interventions

Abstract

The rapid increase in the numbers and ranges of state-funded area-based interventions (ABIs) in recent years has been documented in Chapter 6. These interventions and the associated fundings streams are mixed and matched in various ways at local level, as community and voluntary organisations, as well as local stationary bodies, deploy them to tackle poverty and social exclusion. In addition to the national programmes, described earlier, neighbourhood-level organisations are able to draw also on a number of localized measures, so that the picture of area-based interventions at the point of delivery is even more complex than at national level.