2004 · Study · English
Communities that care: a case study of regeneration from Wales
Fairnington, A.
Fairnington, A. (2004). Communities that care: a case study of regeneration from Wales. Critical Public Health, 14(1), 27–36. doi.org/10.1080/09581590310001647489
Summary
Article in Critical Public Health, part of a special issue on building multidisciplinary public health in the UK, presenting Communities that Care as a case study of community regeneration from Wales. Starting from the observation that genuine strategic partnerships involving residents as well as agencies remain rare in public health and regeneration, the author draws on the experience of more than 30 CTC partnerships across England, Scotland and Wales, with the Welsh site as the illustrative case, to identify the processes that make such partnerships work. The argument is that the risk and protective factor model gives partners a shared, joined-up data set from the schools survey and archival audit, and that this produces an action plan that is community led, evidence based and capable of being sustained over several years. A practice-based case study by an author involved in the Welsh programme rather than an independent evaluation; it reports no outcome measurements, and its claims about sustainability predate the 2004 JRF evaluation and the closure of CtC UK in 2009. Only the abstract could be read; the full text is behind a paywall.