Managing Community Practice: Principles, Policies and Programmes

Recent policy trends have moved the principle of community involvement to the centre of the UK government's social inclusion, neighbourhood renewal and health development programmes. The challenges to managers involved in such work are addressed directly by this book. The book provides material on a key - and neglected - aspect of the government's agenda: how organisations can work effectively in communities and in partnership with local community groups. It brings together contributions on the meaning, principles and application of managing community practice. Its distinctive feature is its focus on the role and skills needed by managers if ambitious regeneration and social inclusion programmes are to work in communities.

Sarah Banks is codirector of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and professor in the School of the Applied Social Sciences at Durham University.

Hugh Butcher was head of the Department of Community Studies at Bradford College, UK. 

Paul Henderson is honorary professor of earth sciences at University College London and former director of science at the Natural History Museum in London. His most recent book is The Cambridge Handbook of Earth Science Data.

Jim Robertson was senior lecturer in community work studies at Northumbria University.