...Jim Hordern Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss different approaches to evaluation taken in the case of two regeneration programmes in England and Wales and identify how assumptions about the nature of policy and programme implementation affect evaluation and considerations of its use...

... in practice. This paper aims to investigate community empowerment and influence over service providers brought about by the Communities First programme in Wales, a regeneration programme which aims to empower local communities. Design/methodology/approach The research analyses nine Communities First...

... care managers and commissioning officers in 13 (60 per cent) of the local, unitary authorities in Wales. Managers at independent home care providers have been interviewed also. The study has been ongoing since September 2004. For comparison, Barnet in England has been included because, unlike any Welsh...

... of partnership programmes which are born and bred in Wales. Second, Wales has unitary local government and so it does not have the complexity of two‐tier structures which frustrate partnership working in the English shires. Third the Welsh polity is a small one with short and close vertical linkages between...

... the home secretary, David Blunkett announced the first ever “national” policing plan, which directly identifies to Chief Constables of the 43 forces in England and Wales, those areas that they must prioritise when setting out their local policing plans. Such key priorities are drug‐related crime, car crime...

.... Distinctive policies in Wales and Scotland are being crafted, especially in education and health and social care. Approaches to performance management also vary. Third, there is little systematic attempt to weigh the impact of different combinations of expenditure in terms of notions of opportunity costs...