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The programmes and definitions below refer to England unless otherwise stated.
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Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC):	The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) is a new national and international centre of excellence for the skills and knowledge needed to create communities fit for the 21st century. Search renewal.net for 'Academy for Sustainable Communities'
Additionality:	A way of measuring the benefits of a project which highlights the changes brought about which would not have occurred if the project had not taken place. Search renewal.net for 'additionality'
Affordable housing:	Housing that is defined as being 'affordable' in the local context, and which covers a spectrum of outcomes including 'low cost' and 'subsidised'. Search renewal.net for 'affordable housing'
Aims and objectives:	The result a project is intended to achieve. Search renewal.net for 'aims and objectives'
Anti poverty strategies:	An attempt at a co-ordinated approach to tackling poverty including programmes to help people claim benefits, manage debt, have access to low interest small loans and better access to social work and housing services. Search renewal.net for 'anti poverty strategies'
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) :	Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) are court orders which prohibit the perpetrator from specific anti-social behaviours. An ASBO can ban an offender from: continuing the offending behaviour; spending time with a particular group of friends; and visiting certain areas. ASBOs are issued for a minimum of two years with the aim of protecting the public from the behaviour, rather than punishing the perpetrator. An ASBO is a civil order, not a criminal penalty – this means it won’t appear on an individual's criminal record. However, a breach of an ASBO is a criminal offence punishable by a fine or up to five years in prison. Search renewal.net for 'Anti Social Behaviour Orders'
Area based regeneration:	In some areas, problems of economic, social and environmental dereliction combine to lock local communities into a vicious cycle of exclusion. Area-based initiatives encourage a range of partners to work together, targeting their resources to improve the quality of life in these areas. Search renewal.net for 'area based regeneration'
Area Investment Frameworks (AIFs):	Set out the regeneration priorities for an area with the aim of targeting funding from Regional Development Agencies. Search renewal.net for 'Area Investment Frameworks'
Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO):	A not-for-profit company set up by a local authority to manage or improve all or part of its housing stock. Search renewal.net for 'Arms Length Management Organisation'
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Baseline:	A measurement of the starting conditions, for example numbers unemployed, before a programme is undertaken. The benefits of a programme can be assessed over time by comparing the baseline with more up to date figures. Search renewal.net for 'baseline'
Beacon Scheme:	A government scheme which identifies excellence and innovation in local government. Search renewal.net for 'Beacon Scheme'
Bending main programmes:	Tackling deprivation by focusing local agency and government department spending more specifically on the most deprived areas. Search renewal.net for 'bending main programmes'
Best Value:	A framework, based on a set of nationally determined indicators, to help local authorities measure, manage and improve their performance. Search renewal.net for 'Best Value'
Big Lottery Fund:	Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out half the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery. Funding covers: health, education, environment and charitable purposes. Search renewal.net for 'Big Lottery Fund'
BME:	Black and Minority Ethnic. Search renewal.net for 'BME'
Brownfield land:	Land that has been previously developed. Search renewal.net for 'brownfield land'
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs):	A part of an urban area where local businesses pay additional rates to create improvements in services such as street cleaning, landscaping or crime reduction. Search renewal.net for 'Business Improvement Districts'
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Capacity building:	Support, techniques and initiatives which aim build the capacity of individuals or organisations within communities to contribute effectively to regeneration projects. Search renewal.net for 'capacity building'
Capital funding:	Money spent on the purchase or improvement of fixed assets such as buildings, roads and equipment. Search renewal.net for 'capital funding'
Citizenship:	Citizenship is a new aspect of the curriculum for pupils at all stages of compulsory education and for young adults in post-16 learning, training and work. It provides opportunities for children and young people to learn about their rights and responsibilities, government and democracy and communities and identity. The aim is to help your child to understand what being a citizen involves, why it is important to them as individuals, to society and about the importance of being involved. Search renewal.net for 'citizenship'
City Challenge:	A five year government initiative, now completed, aimed at transforming specific rundown inner city areas and significantly improving the quality of life for local residents within its policy area. Search renewal.net for 'City Challenge'
City Growth Strategy initiative:	A scheme to encourage towns and cities to develop and implement inner city strategies which put enterprise and business at the heart of regeneration, focusing on the competitive advantages of inner city areas. Search renewal.net for 'City Growth Strategies'
Communities and Local Government:	Communities and Local Government is the successor department to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). It is an expanded department with a new remit to promote community cohesion and equality, as well as responsibility for housing, urban regeneration, planning and local government. Search renewal.net for 'Communities and Local Government'
Communities First:	Communities First is a major flagship Welsh Assembly government programme aimed at cutting poverty and helping to improve the lives of people who live in the poorest areas. Search renewal.net for 'Communities First'
Communities Scotland:	An executive agency of the Scottish Executive, directly accountable to the Scottish Parliament, which carries out three functions: regeneration, regulation and inspection of social landlords, and investment and performance in housing. Search renewal.net for 'Communities Scotland'
Community businesses:	Organisations which are established to provide services and/or employment in a local community. Their focus is about building the community and the local economy, but doing so in a business-like way as independent and self-supporting organisations. Search renewal.net for 'community business'
Community Chest:	Community Chests were administered by voluntary sector 'lead organisations' and offered small grants to community groups for projects to help them renew their own neighbourhoods. Search renewal.net for 'Community Chest'
Community Empowerment Fund (CEF):	Aimed to help community and voluntary groups to become empowered in order to participate in Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) and neighbourhood renewal. Search renewal.net for 'Community Empowerment Fund'
Community Forum:	The Community Forum was launched on 23 January 2002. Its purpose is to act as a sounding board for Ministers and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and provide a 'grass-roots' perspective on neighbourhood renewal strategies. Search renewal.net for 'Community Forum'
Community planning:	The process where a local authority and partner organisations come together to plan, provide and promote the well-being of their communities. It promotes the active involvement of communities in the decisions on local services which affect people's lives including for example health, education, transport, the economy, safety and the environment. Search renewal.net for 'Community planning'
Community strategies:	The plans which local authorities are now required to prepare for improving the economic, environmental and social well being of local areas and by which the councils are expected to co-ordinate the actions of the public, private voluntary and community organisations that operate locally. Search renewal.net for 'Community strategies'
Crime Concern:	A national crime reduction organisation and registered charity which provides advice and help to a wide range of professional and voluntary agencies to support their work in reducing crime and the fear of crime within local communities. Search renewal.net for 'Crime Concern'
Crime Reduction Partnerships:	Statutory partnerships formed as a consequence of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which required the police and local authorities and others to work together to tackle crime and disorder within a local authority area. Search renewal.net for 'Crime Reduction Partnerships'
Crime Reduction Programme:	A government funded programme which consists of a series of diverse initiatives which have been shown to be effective at reducing crime or the fear of crime. Search renewal.net for 'Crime Reduction Programme'
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Deadweight:	A way of measuring the benefits of a programme which identifies the things that would have occurred anyway without the intervention of the programme. Search renewal.net for 'deadweight'
Decent Homes:	Government standards which state that a home must be warm, weatherproof and have reasonably modern facilities in order to be classed as ‘decent’. Search renewal.net for 'Decent Homes'
Delivery plan:	A plan which sets out what a project or programme intends to achieve, when, where and at what cost. Search renewal.net for 'Delivery plan'
Discount rate:	The annual percentage rate at which the value of money reduces over time to give a present day value. Search renewal.net for 'Discount rate'
Development Trusts:	A network of independent, not-for-profit, community-based organisations which are engaged in the economic, environmental and social regeneration of a defined area or community. Search renewal.net for 'Development Trusts'
Displacement:	The extent to which the effects of a project impact, positively or negatively, on surrounding areas. Search renewal.net for 'displacement'
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Early Excellence Centres:	Local centres which offer models of good practice in early years education in deprived areas. Search renewal.net for 'Early Excellence Centres'
Education Action Zones:	Local clusters of schools in deprived areas receiving special government grants to work together with others to raise education standards. Search renewal.net for 'Education Action Zones'
Employment Zones:	Areas where additional money is available to help the long term unemployed into work. Search renewal.net for 'Employment Zones'
English Cities Fund (ECF):	A scheme aimed at attracting private sector funds into neglected cities. The Fund is a partnership between English Partnerships, developer AMEC and investors Legal & General. Search renewal.net for 'English Cities Fund'
English Partnerships:	English Partnerships is the national regeneration agency, helping to support high quality sustainable growth in England. Search renewal.net for 'English Partnerships'
ERDF:	European Regional Development Fund: an EC structural fund which aims to reduce inequalities in socio-economic development between the regions in the Community, by supporting infrastructure projects, job-creation investments, local development and aid for SMEs. Search renewal.net for 'ERDF'
ESF:	European Social Fund: supports activities that develop employability and human resources in five key areas: active labour market policies; equal opportunities; improving training and education and promoting lifelong learning; adaptability and entrepreneurship; improving the participation of women in the labour market. Search renewal.net for 'European Social Fund'
European Objective 1 funding:	Objective 1 targets EU Structural Funds on areas which have an economy falling well behind the European average for wealth creation. Search renewal.net for 'European Objective 1'
European Objective 2 funding:	Objective 2 targets EU structural funds on areas that have suffered through the decline of a major industry. Search renewal.net for 'European Objective 2'
European Objective 3 funding	Objective 3 targets EU structural funds towards developing lifelong learning, supporting those at risk from exclusion in the workplace, promoting the role of women in the workforce and promoting adaptability and entrepreneurship. Search renewal.net for 'European Objective 3'
Evaluation:	An assessment, after a project or programme has started, of the extent to which objectives have been achieved, how efficiently they have been achieved, and whether there are any lessons to be learned for the future. Search renewal.net for 'evaluation'
Excellence in Cities (EiC):	A programme to drive up standards in schools in 47 areas of England. Search renewal.net for 'Excellence in Cities'
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Floor Target Action Plan :	Developed to assist Neighbourhood Renewal Fund Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) to prepare plans to accelerate progress on key floor targets where the gap between their performance and national floor targets is widest. The five step approach enables LSPs to identify what existing plans and activities will deliver and, where necessary, what additional action are needed to narrow the gap between expected performance and the relevant target. The guidance has now been integrated into the LSP Delivery Toolkit as the methodology provides an approach that can be adopted by LSPs in developing all plans including Local Area Agreements. Search renewal.net for 'Floor Target Action Plan'
Floor Targets:	Deprivation will be tackled through the bending of main departmental programmes such as the police and health services, to focus more specifically on the most deprived areas. Departments now have minimum targets to meet, which means that, for the first time, they will be judged on the areas where they are doing worst, and not just on averages. Search renewal.net for 'Floor Targets'
Forward strategy:	Arrangements which will continue the process of renewal and development after funding from the renewal programme stops. Also called an exit, continuation or succession strategy. Search renewal.net for 'forward strategy'
Foyer:	A place that provides homes, training and work opportunities for homeless young people. Search renewal.net for 'foyer'
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Gap funding:	The main vehicle by which the government hopes to encourage developers to build on brownfield sites by providing aid for private companies to help them redevelop contaminated, derelict and disused sites that might not otherwise be profitable. Search renewal.net for 'gap funding'
Government Offices for the English Regions:	There are nine Government Offices, each working with regional partners and local people to help deliver the government's key aims at regional level. Search renewal.net for 'Government Offices for the English Regions'
Groundwork UK:	A charity supporting regeneration through practical environmental work in deprived areas. Search renewal.net for 'Groundwork UK'
Growth Areas:	Four areas in the South East of England where additional growth is being managed in a sustainable way. They are Thames Gateway; Milton Keynes – South Midlands; London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough; and Ashford. Search renewal.net for 'Growth Areas'
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Health Action Zones:	Partnerships between the NHS, local authorities, the voluntary and private sectors and local communities which represent a new approach to public health, linking health, regeneration, employment, education, housing and anti-poverty initiatives to respond to the needs of vulnerable groups and deprived communities. Search renewal.net for 'Health Action Zones'
Healthy Living Centres:	The Healthy Living Centre initiative is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. The programme targets areas and groups that represent the most disadvantaged sectors of the population. Healthy Living Centres are expected to seek to influence the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, poor access to services, and social and economic aspects of deprivation which can contribute to inequalities in health. Search renewal.net for 'Healthy Living Centres'
Highlands and Islands Enterprise:	The main economic development agency for the highlands and islands of Scotland. Search renewal.net for 'Highlands and Islands Enterprise'
Home Zones:	Residential streets in which the road space is shared between drivers and other road users, with the wider needs of residents being accommodated. They are about promoting quality of life and neighbourliness. Search renewal.net for 'Home Zones'
Housing Action Trusts:	Six government agencies set up to regenerate some of the most deprived local authority estates in England. Search renewal.net for 'Housing Action Trust'
Housing Associations:	A common term for the 2000 or so independent, not-for-profit housing organisations registered with and regulated by the Housing Corporation. Search renewal.net for 'Housing Associations'
Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders (HMRPs):	Partnerships of local authorities and other key stakeholders set up to develop and implement strategic plans for whole housing markets in decline. Search renewal.net for 'Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders'
Housing Corporation:	The government body that regulates and funds housing associations in England. Search renewal.net for 'Housing Corporation'
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Improvement plan/planning :	Element of any good performance management framework identifying specific areas and corresponding actions needed to improve performance. Search renewal.net for 'improvement plan/planning'
Indices of Deprivation:	The Indices of Deprivation combine a number of indicators, chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues into a single deprivation score for each small area in England. The Indices are used widely to analyse patterns of deprivation, identify areas that would benefit from special initiatives or programmes and as a tool to determine eligibility for specific funding streams. Search renewal.net for 'Indices of Deprivation'
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC):	A US not-for-profit organisation founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. It is helping the government in England develop inner city growth strategies. Search renewal.net for 'Initiative for a Competitive Inner City'
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Leakage:	The extent to which the activity proposed benefits people outside the target area or group. Search renewal.net for 'leakage'
Learning and Skills Council (LSC):	The Government agency responsible for adult training in England. Search renewal.net for 'Learning and Skills Council'
Leverage:	The additional money that a programme causes others to contribute. Search renewal.net for 'leverage'
Lifelong learning:	The continuous development of skills and knowledge to enhance quality of life and employment prospects. Search renewal.net for 'lifelong learning'
Local Agenda 21:	Strategies prepared by local authorities to promote sustainable development. Search renewal.net for 'Local Agenda 21'
Local Area Agreements (LAAs):	Local Area Agreements (LAAs) simplify the number of central government funding streams going into an area, helping to effectively join up service delivery and allow greater flexibility for local solutions and circumstance. They are agreements, struck between central government and upper tier local authorities and major delivery partners in an area (working through Local Strategic Partnerships). Search renewal.net for 'Local Area Agreements'
Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI):	An initiative that aims to release the economic and productivity potential of the most deprived local areas across the country through enterprise and investment, thereby boosting local incomes and employment opportunities, and building sustainable communities. Search renewal.net for 'Local Enterprise Growth Initiative'
Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy :	Strategies/plans developed and implemented by the local authority areas in receipt of Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, with the aim of narrowing the gap between the worst neighbourhoods/disadvantaged groups and the rest. Search renewal.net for 'Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy'
Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA):	Agreements between individual local authorities and the government setting out the authority's commitment to deliver specific improvements in performance, and the Government's commitment to reward these improvements. The agreement also records what the Government will do to help the authority achieve the improved performance. Search renewal.net for 'Local Public Service Agreement'
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs):	A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a single non-statutory, multi-agency body, which matches local authority boundaries, and aims to bring together at a local level the different parts of the public, private, community and voluntary sectors. Search renewal.net for 'Local Strategic Partnerships'
Locality budgeting:	The process of developing and co-ordinating budgets between all government organisations relevant to community and neighbourhood needs in a particular area. Search renewal.net for 'locality budgeting'
London Development Agency (LDA):	The economic development arm of the Greater London Authority. Search renewal.net for 'London Development Agency'
Low demand housing:	Housing where the market has collapsed or is close to doing so. Search renewal.net for 'low demand housing'
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Mainstreaming	Realigning the allocation of mainstream resources - such as the police and health services - to better target the most deprived areas. Search renewal.net for 'mainstreaming'
Market failure:	A situation where barriers prevent the normal and efficient operation of a local economy. These may be information barriers, where local people don't know about job vacancies nearby, or the negative impact which high crime levels have on firms and workers locating to a particular area. Search renewal.net for 'Market failure'
Milestones:	Key events with dates, marking stages in the progress of a project or programme. Search renewal.net for 'milestones'
Mixed Communities:	A mixed community is one where members of all income groups live alongside each other in an attractive and safe environment, with access to decent public services, a range of high quality housing, good schools, transport, retail, leisure and economic opportunities. In order to explore this approach, a number of Mixed Community demonstration projects are currently being developed by local authorities and partners in co-operation with the Department for Communities and Local Government. Search renewal.net for 'Mixed Communities'
Monitoring:	Regular collection and analysis of input, output and outcome data, along with information concerning the problems being tackled. Search renewal.net for 'monitoring'
Multipliers:	The additional or second level effects of a programme. Search renewal.net for 'multipliers'
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Neighbourhood Management:	A way of encouraging stakeholders to work with service providers to help improve the quality of services delivered in deprived neighbourhoods. Search renewal.net for 'Neighbourhood Management'
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF):	The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) aims to enable England's most deprived local authorities, in collaboration with their Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest of the country. Search renewal.net for 'Neighbourhood Renewal Fund'
Neighbourhood Wardens:	A neighbourhood warden provides a uniformed, semi-official presence in a residential area with the aim of improving quality of life. Wardens can promote community safety, assist with environmental improvements and housing management, and also contribute to community development. They may patrol, provide concierge duties or act as 'super caretakers' and support vulnerable residents. Search renewal.net for 'Neighbourhood Wardens'
New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal:	The government's action plan for neighbourhood renewal in England, produced by the Social Exclusion Unit in 2001. Search renewal.net for 'New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal'
New Deal for Communities (NDC):	A government programme to regenerate very deprived areas across England. Search renewal.net for 'New Deal for Communities'
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Office of the Third Sector (OTS):	The Office has been set up to drive forward the government's role in supporting a thriving third sector, and brings together sector–related work from across government. Search renewal.net for 'Office of the Third Sector'
Option appraisal:	Mechanism for examining and comparing alternative possibilities. It is a particularly useful tool for choosing the most effective and efficient set of projects or interventions to achieve a partnership's long-term outcomes. Search renewal.net for 'Option appraisal'
Outputs and outcomes:	Outputs measure what was directly produced by the regeneration programme, such as additional training places or more houses. Outcomes measure the longer term changes in an area that were brought about by the regeneration programme. Search renewal.net for 'outputs and outcomes'
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Partnerships:	Partnerships vary greatly in how they are established and resourced and how they operate. There are no defining features for partnerships but they should bring together representatives from different sectors and different communities of interest to agree and work towards common goals. Organisations which bring together representatives of those who have an interest in the local area such as local authorities, health trusts, businesses, voluntary organisations, and residents groups. Search renewal.net for 'partnerships'
Performance Management Framework :	A self-assessment model designed to help neighbourhood management initiatives assess their achievements and identify priorities for improvement. Search renewal.net for 'Performance Management Framework'
Project appraisal:	The assessment of particular projects to make sure that they provide value for money and that they will tackle the problem to be addressed. Search renewal.net for 'project appraisal'
Projects:	The individual components or elements of an overall programme or scheme. Search renewal.net for 'projects'
Public Service Agreements (PSAs):	(see Floor Targets) Search renewal.net for 'Public Service Agreements'
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Race equality	To give everyone an equal chance to live free from fear, prejudice, discrimination and racism. Search renewal.net for 'race equality'
Regeneration	Action which leads to the solving of urban problems in areas which have undergone decline. This action aims to achieve a lasting improvement in the physical, economic, social and environmental nature of an area. Search renewal.net for 'regeneration'
Regional Centres of Excellence for Regeneration:	The Regional Centres were established as a result of the Urban Task Force in 1998, which recognised the need to address urban design skills. They have been set up to drive the development of sustainable community skills and learning at regional level and base their pursuit of good practice on research, evidence and innovative thinking. Search renewal.net for 'Regional Centres of Excellence for Regeneration'
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs):	These are the nine government agencies set up in 1999 to co-ordinate regional economic development and regeneration, enable the English regions to improve their relative competitiveness and reduce the imbalances that exists within and between regions. Search renewal.net for 'Regional Development Agencies'
Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS):	Strategies for how a region should look in 15-20 years time and possibly longer. Search renewal.net for 'Regional Spatial Strategies'
Registered Social Landlords (RSLs):	Landlords of social housing that are registered with the Housing Corporation. Most are housing associations but they also include trusts, co-operatives and companies. Search renewal.net for 'Registered Social Landlords'
Respect agenda:	A cross-governmental strategy to tackle anti-social behaviour and help create a modern culture of respect. Search renewal.net for 'Respect'
Right to Buy:	A scheme under which most council tenants and some housing association tenants may buy their homes at a lower price than the full market value. Search renewal.net for 'Right to Buy'
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Scottish Enterprise:	The main government agency for economic development in Scotland. Search renewal.net for 'Scottish Enterprise'
Scottish Executive:	The devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport. Search renewal.net for 'Scottish Executive'
Section 106 agreements (Section 75 in Scotland):	Negotiated agreements between a planning authority and a developer to provide, for example, low cost housing or community facilities in return for the granting of planning permission. Search renewal.net for 'Section 106'
Sensitivity analysis:	An analysis of the effects of varying the projected values of variables. For example, different values might be given for unemployment rates to project the effect of the differences on a local economy. Search renewal.net for 'sensitivity analysis'
Single Regeneration Budget (SRB):	The Single Regeneration Budget programme aims to enhance the employment prospects, education and skills of local people and to tackle the needs of communities in the most deprived areas. Search renewal.net for 'Single Regeneration Budget'
SMEs:	small and medium sized companies with less than 250 employees. Search renewal.net for 'SMEs'
Social entrepreneurs:	The equivalent of business entrepreneurs, but operating in the social, not-for profit sector. They aim to seek new and innovative solutions to social problems. Search renewal.net for 'social entrepreneurs'
Social exclusion:	The government has defined social exclusion as being a shorthand label for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. It can also have a wider meaning which encompasses the exclusion of people from the normal exchanges, practices and rights of society. Search renewal.net for 'social exclusion'
Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs):	Government supported partnership organisations in deprived areas of Scotland. Search renewal.net for 'Social Inclusion Partnerships'
Sport Action Zones:	A series of areas in which sport is used to reduce social exclusion and promote community development and regeneration. Search renewal.net for 'Sport Action Zones'
Substitution:	This happens where a firm substitutes one activity for a similar activity, for example recruiting a different job applicant, in order to take advantage of public sector assistance. Search renewal.net for 'substitution'
Sure Start:	A government scheme which aims to improve the health and well-being of families and children before and from birth, so children are ready to flourish when they go to school by setting up local Sure Start programmes to improve services for families with children under four and spreading good practice learned from local programmes to everyone involved in providing services for young children. Search renewal.net for 'Sure Start'
Sustainable Communities Plan:	The Deputy Prime Minister launched the Communities Plan (Sustainable Communities: Building for the future) in February 2003. The Plan sets out a long-term programme of action for delivering sustainable communities in both urban and rural areas. It aims to tackle housing supply issues in the South East, low demand in other parts of the country, bring all social housing up to the Decent Homes standard by 2010, protect the countryside and improve the quality of our public spaces. Search renewal.net for 'Sustainable Communities Plan'
Sustainable development:	Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Search renewal.net for 'Sustainable development'
Synergy:	Added value arising from the working together of two or more organisations. Search renewal.net for 'synergy'
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Testbed Learning Communities:	A government-backed project to support sustainable ways of working with local learning communities. Search renewal.net for 'Testbed Learning Communities'
Tackling disadvantage:	Supporting society's most vulnerable groups by reviving the most deprived neighbourhoods and reducing social exclusion. Search renewal.net for 'tackling disadvantage'
Third Sector:	Non-governmental organisations that are value-driven and which principally reinvest their surpluses to further social, environmental or cultural objectives. Search renewal.net for 'Third Sector'
Town Centre Managers:	Town centre managers manage the public realm of town centres so that they are attractive, safe and accessible to all. They work towards improving the competitiveness and image of towns and cities and organise partnerships between businesses, local authorities and the community. Search renewal.net for 'Town Centre Managers'
Trajectory analysis/planning :	A forecasting technique that can help chart anticipated progress towards a target or long-term strategic goal against which action progress can be mapped. Search renewal.net for