Design for social inclusion
Community-based design
Resources
Dott Cornwall
The Design Council, Cornwall Council and University College Falmouth have partnered to deliver the Dott (Designs of the time) programme in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly during 2009/10. Dott is an innovative programme which uses design to drive the development of new solutions to UK social and economic challenges and involves communities in designing local services. Dott Cornwall is part of a 10-year programme of events developed by the Design Council that will take place across the UK.
DottCornwall website
Dott07
Dott 07 was the first in a 10-year programme of biennial events due to take place in different regions across the UK. In 2007 the Design Council collaborated with the regional development agency One North East to explore what life would be like in a sustainable region and how design could make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Dott07 website
Cabinet Office
Understanding the risks of social exclusion across the life course
This research from the Universities of Bristol and York and the National Centre for Social Research explores the risks of social exclusion among people and families across four key life stages.
The Cabinet Office’s Social Exclusion Task Force website
The Centre for Creative Communities
This is an independent charity that works cross-sector in arts and education to promote the building of creative and sustainable communities, where creativity and learning have pivotal roles in personal, social and cultural development.
Centre for Creative Communities
The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media
This organisation undertakes research and consultancy, hods conference and public seminars, organises networks of researchers and practitioners, and works in partnership with other organisations in order to move beyond a merely defensive approach and find new ways of empowering young people, both as critical consumers and as producers in their own right.
Centre for the study of Children, Youth and media
House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee
A Report on Community Cohesion and Migration
Community Development Foundation
This is a non-departmental public body, supported by the Active Community Unit of the Home Office, the role of which is to pioneer, study and promote new forms of community development, in order to inform public policy, professional practice and community initiatives
Community Development Foundation
Foyer Federation
The Foyer Federation
provides housing and support to young people in need and helps them to find appropriate employment, training or education. This includes developing basic skills and independent living skills.
Foyer Federation
Inclusion
As part of the National Grid for Learning, this site offers opportunities for inclusion by ensuring access to information, advice and resources. It includes information on meeting the needs of many groups of people such as the disabled, travellers, able pupils, those with learning difficulties and those with English as an additional language.
Inclusion
The Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation
This a national charity specialising in community participation, training and development. It exists to assist and support the growth of active communities throughout Britain, and believes that participative, democratic, cohesive and caring communities result from local people sharing in the responsibility of developing the economic, social and environmental policies that shape their lives.
The Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Long term unemployment and the threat of ‘social exclusion’
This comparative study examines what is being done for long-term unemployed people in Germany, Sweden and Britain and looks at how people in these countries are coping with long-term unemployment.
Radstats Journal
Measuring social exclusion – a lifetime approach
This paper discusses the approach adopted by the Belfast Youth Development Study research team to measure social exclusion in a study of adolescent drug use in Northern Ireland and its place within the study of social exclusion and young people, more generally.
Shelter
Tackling homelessness
Information on homelessness in England – including what it is, what causes it, what it’s like to be homeless.
Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland
Including the homeless
A strategy to promote the social inclusion of homeless people and those at risk of becoming homeless in Northern Ireland
See Chapter 2 – What it means to be ‘homeless’
New Policy Institute
Poverty and social exclusion
Various reports, analyses and other information on poverty and social exclusion in the UK from the NPI, a progressive think tank.
Link one
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Annual Report 2003: The state of the drugs problem in the European Union and Norway
Chapter 3- Selected issues: Relationship between social exclusion and drug use
National Literacy Trust
Basic skills and social exclusion