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Tables of Contents for Skills in Neighbourhood Work
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
2
Key concepts
3
6
Changing context
9
8
The importance of the neighbourhood
17
2
The poverty of neighbourhood theory
19
1
Defining community capability
20
4
Some ideas around which the book is organised
24
11
Dealing with isolation
25
1
Neighbourhood work
25
2
Seeing neighbourhood work as a process
27
4
A work book
31
4
Entering the neighbourhood
35
18
Thinking about going in
35
7
Negotiating entry
42
11
Getting to know the neighbourhood
53
28
Why collect data?
53
2
What do I need to know?
55
9
How do I go about data collection?
64
15
Conclusions
79
2
What next? Needs, goals and roles
81
23
Assessing the nature of problems and issues
82
5
Setting goals and priorities
87
3
Deciding on role predisposition
90
12
Specifying the next moves
102
1
Summary
103
1
Making contacts and bringing people together
104
29
Making contact: but for what reasons?
108
4
The process of making contact
112
5
Ways of making contact
117
14
Conclusions
131
2
Forming and building organisations
133
33
From group to organisation
134
6
Forming an organisation
140
12
Building an organisation
152
11
Public meetings
163
3
Helping to clarify goals and priorities
166
15
Clarifying goals
167
5
Identifying priorities
172
4
Issues for the worker
176
5
Keeping the organisation going
181
19
Providing resources and information
187
3
Being supportive
190
1
Co-ordinating help
191
2
Planning
193
2
Developing confidence and competence
195
5
Dealing with friends and enemies
200
22
Identifying and negotiating with decision-makers
201
7
Relating to other groups and organisations in the community
208
5
Constituency and the general public
213
1
A social policy perspective
214
2
Learning to administer and provide services
216
6
Leavings and endings
222
1
A comment on evaluation
223
3
Types of endings in neighbourhood work
226
6
The experience of endings
232
3
The tasks involved in endings
235
7
Conclusions
242
1
Appendix: Community auditing as a community development process
243
262
Introduction
243
1
A people-centered process
244
1
The audit group
245
1
Planning and preparation
246
1
Methodology
246
1
Secondary data
247
1
Fieldwork
248
1
Survey
249
3
Presentation of results
252
2
Community auditing in practice - a model
254
7
Action planning
261
1
Websites
262
2
Bibliography
264
6
Index
270