The annual gathering of the Development Trusts Association in Leeds on 15th September saw the launch of the important research findings ‘Bearing Fruit: Good Practice in Asset-Based Rural Community Development. The study examines the experiences of seven rural Development Trusts to ‘see what works’.

One the final reports to come out of the work of the ICT Hub is now published.

“ICT Support for the Third Sector: Is Social Enterprise the Solution?”  was commissioned by the ICT Hub to answer the following questions:

This Round-up evaluates the strategic and policy context for housing development and neighbourhood renewal. The authors argue that integrating different housing tenures is an important prerequisite for developing ‘housing of choice’, but that there are many other aspects of sustainable communities which need to be given equal weight.

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This Viewpoint reviews some of the key proposals in adult social care of the last ten years from an equity perspective. It uses the analysis to argue that we can develop practical policies that are informed by clearly stated equity principles which serve to ensure that the most disadvantaged groups of people are treated more fairly.

This resource helps organisations consider options in a complex, yet simple way.  It helps identify key criteria for selection across a range of fields for a variety of purposes - feasibility, selection of projects, choosing development, and much more - and then provides a simple framework to make transparent choices.

Scottish Hydropower Resource Study commissioned for the Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (FREDS):  http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/917/0064958.pdf

This working paper is the first from ippr’s Economics of Migration project. The project aims to improve understanding of the economic impacts of migration in the UK, and how policy should respond to that migration in order to maximise its economic benefits, and minimise its costs.