Regeneration Partnerships
In January 2004, Liverpool City Council introduced the Neighbourhood Management Service as a new way to deliver its services. Its aim is to help the city's regeneration by making improvements to Council services, and to help in the decisions and efforts where additional money and resources are needed in some of the poorest areas of the city.
Five Neighbourhood Management Areas have now been set up. The service was developed to follow the Council's vision to 'make Liverpool a healthy, greener, safer place; enhancing residential areas; protecting open spaces; and promoting community safety'.
We want local services to be managed and delivered by people working in our different suburbs. We think this better than having one central office in the city centre which residents feel is too far away to be bothered about them and their community.
In order to create and sustain our goal of clean, safe, well managed neighbourhoods across the city, we work together with a range of public and voluntary sector agencies. These include local communities and their representatives.
The local neighbourhood teams act as champions for the communities they represent. Each area has a one-stop-shop. From each of these, core activities and regeneration proposals are coordinated.
We hope by doing things this way will bring about significant change to all areas of the city, and in particular in our most deprived wards.
Partners who we work with, and initiatives that are underway in the neighbourhoods, include:-
- Neighbourhood Management Areas
Each of the Neighbourhood Management Teams in the 5 Neighbourhood Management Areas talk with each other. They make sure that a co-ordinated service is offered across the city. This will includes sharing knowledge and experience with dedicated staff who have built up contacts with other partners and their communities.
The teams co-ordinate the delivery of many basic Council services. These range from street cleaning, bin emptying, grounds maintenance, and community liaison. - Cluster Partnerships
The Cluster Partnerships have responsibility for looking after the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme agenda in Liverpool. This programme has money to spend in the poorest areas of the city. These are in 22 designated priority areas, and grouped into 5 clusters or "Cluster Partnerships".
This money, which comes from the Government, is being used used to help improve housing; raise school standards; reduce crime; and to tackle poor health levels. As well as using the money to improve Council services in these areas, other groups that are members of Liverpool's Local Strategic Partnership "Liverpool First" are also improving what they do to help. - Strategic Investment Areas
Priority 3 of the 2000/06 EU Objective 1 Programme (4) spends money on schemes to try to create jobs and training places within certain areas of the city called Strategic Investment Areas (SIAs). Five of the eight Merseyside SIAs fall within the Liverpool city boundary. - JETs (Jobs, Education & Training)
The JET (Jobs, Education and Training) service has offices dotted around the city, in areas with the highest unemployment rates. Local people can go to these to get advice on training courses, and to find work. JETs play a strategic role in finding where job opportunities exist, and help employers to find local people with the right skills to fill those jobs. - Housing Market Renewal
Over the last 10 years, the housing market in parts of the north and eastern areas of the city has failed. This has had a huge impact on residents and businesses living and working in the affected areas. Managing the changes and keeping the community informed about what is happening is a major challenge to Neighbourhood Management Services. Find out more about Housing Market Renewal in Liverpool.