Features, PublicNet: 13 February, 2009
By Geraldine Blake, John Diamond, Jane Foot, Ben Gidley, Marjorie Mayo, Kalbir Shukra and Martin Yarnit,
Government policies and the efforts of local councils aim to secure a greater degree of community engagement. But as well as engaging communities there is also a need to build cohesive communities. This is particularly challenging where there are newcomers from EU countries and elsewhere. Community engagement and community cohesion policies have been developed in parallel, but they have not been integrated. The authors describe what must change for this to happen.
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