By Nick Bailey and Mark Livingston. Regeneration of deprived areas is a major challenge and there is a constant search for new evidence on which to base policies. The authors challenge some of the assumptions made about population turnover and their conclusions have a significant impact on local regeneration programmes. They show that there is a potential risk that policies designed to promote income or tenure mix may inadvertently exacerbate problems of population turnover if they target single people or couples through the development of starter homes.

Bodies that give money to charities to deliver services or as grants need to do more to check that the organisations involved are fit for purpose, according to the Association of Charitable Foundations, UK Workforce Hub and the Governance Hub. They say recent research has shown that all too often funders do not look behind the scenes at how organisations are run.

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