Looking Sideways is a new study from the Chamberlain Forum looking at the way neighbourhoods and neighbourhood services are coproduced in Birmingham. The research was commissioned by Birmingham City Council as part of the city’s Community Asset Transfer Development Programme.
The central idea is that community assets (tangible assets like buildings and less tangible assets like community networks and ’social capital’) are key factors in how well public services can be delivered.
A copy of the full report can be accessed here.
A briefing paper released earlier in the year can be accessed here.
For more information on the Chamberlain Forum and their work click here
Note: At a recent Sense of Place workshop on coproduction both Paul Slatter of the Chamberlain Forum and Karen Cheney of Birmingham City Council gave presentations on the report. Copies of their presentations will be posted to the Soho Foundation site shortly.
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