Interventions to reduce crime result in undesigned outcomes and it is important to understand what they are in order to get value for money. Crime reduction is a principal feature of the New Deal for Communities and this report from Communities and Local Government examines how crime is displaced as criminals go for the softer option outside the area of intervention and how benefits can spill out to surrounding areas. 

This paper from Communities and Local Government identifies the economic reasons why place matters.
Drivers of productivity come together in places. Places offer a combination of assets which can boost the productivity of firms and attract the skilled workers they need. Place is becoming increasingly important in a globalising world of mobile investment and people.
Place can and does impact on economic and social outcomes. 

By Deborah Rowland & Malcolm Higgs
A huge amount of change initiatives fail and drawing on success stories can limit the risk. Based on a combination of four years rigorous research and practical application of the emerging findings, the book explores the dilemmas related to the growing need for change and the difficulty in making change work. It is destined for leaders who wish to implement change more intelligently and effortlessly. 

This report from Communities and Local Government is one of a series evaluating the New Deal for Communities Programme, which aims to reduce gaps between some of the most deprived areas in England and the rest of the country. It presents findings from case studies.
The 2006-07 British Crime Survey indicates that crime levels in England and Wales have fallen by 42 per cent since their peak in 1995, representing a total of eight million fewer crimes. 

This report from the New Local Government Network calls for all councils to adopt an obesity strategy as part of their Local Area Agreements. It argues that they should be at the centre of fighting obesity and be rewarded by being allowed to retain a sum equivalent to 50 per cent of the NHS savings on treating future obesity averted as a result of early interventions. 

This report from Communities and Local Government explores the impact of the New Deal for Communities and it sets out findings from case studies. It provides insights into why and how change is occurring in the case study areas, it explores relationships between interventions and outcomes at the local level and identifies why and how successful neighbourhood renewal occurs. 

ByAnthony Brand
This report from the New Local Government Network argues that the UK should follow Australia and the US and introduce more flexible, locally tailored solutions to worklessness. It also argues that local authorities and their partners are best placed to understand local issues and how best to target certain areas of worklessness. 

By Joseph A. Raelin
The book incorporates a number of action strategies, such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice, into a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others. The author demonstrates how to engage our reflective powers to challenge those taken-for-granted assumptions that unwittingly hold us back from questioning standard ways of operating. 

By Baroness Neuberger
This report focuses on volunteering in health and social care. There is huge potential for the expansion of volunteering in this area, particularly in relation to the role of volunteers who are also service-users. Much of this expansion cannot be unlocked without a change of culture within the public sector, particularly in the level of understanding of volunteering. 

This report from the Local Government Association calls on the Government to adopt proposals to combat climate change and fight fuel poverty. It advocates a stronger role for local councils and local people in how the public’s money is spent to make homes more energy efficient.
The association sets out an action plan to ensure every home in the country is insulated, lift half a million people out of fuel poverty and slash household energy bills.