Older People's Strategy - Newcastle City Council

94The role of Neighbourhood Management has been describedas helping ‘deprived communities and local services improvelocal outcomes, by improving and joining up local services,and making them more responsive to local needs’. The mainactivities of Neighbourhood Management include: delivering devolved services; and making and implementing agreements with existingservice providers to act more effectively or join up better.A key difference between Neighbourhood Management andearlier regeneration programmes is that NeighbourhoodManagement is not about spending a given pot of money,but providing long-term leverage over mainstream services.The objective of Neighbourhood Management is to helpdeliver long-term outcomes in the areas of: crime health education worklessness housing and the physical environment.Therefore, Neighbourhood Management should influencethe work of several public sector agencies in an area, andnot just the services of the local authority.In Newcastle there is a Neighbourhood Management pilot inNorth Benwell, as well as a city-wide approach to deliveringmore responsive local authority environmental services viaward-based teams and Neighbourhood Response Managers.