A report examined the impacts of the economic recession in rural Wales, in areas such as employment, housing, and welfare services.
Source: The Impacts of the Current Recession in Rural Wales, Wales Rural Observatory
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Dec
The Welsh Assembly government published a strategy for community cohesion. The strategy focused on those policy and service delivery areas that research had shown could have a significant impact on how well a community got on together: housing; learning; communication; promoting equality and social inclusion; and preventing violent extremism.
Source: Getting On Together: A community cohesion strategy for Wales, Welsh Assembly Government
Links: Strategy | WAG press release
Date: 2009-Dec
A report highlighted a number of ways in which children and young people who lived in low-income households in rural Wales were being excluded from services that were available to their contemporaries living in urban areas.
Source: Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Wales, End Child Poverty Network Cymru
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Oct
An audit report said that the Welsh Assembly Government's flagship 'Communities First' programme to tackle poverty and deprivation had delivered local benefits, but still had some 'fundamental risks and challenges' that needed addressing.
Source: Communities First, Wales Audit Office (029 2026 0260)
Links: Report | WAO press release | NAW press release | BBC report
Date: 2009-Jul
The Welsh Assembly Government began consultation on its community cohesion strategy. The strategy set out how the issue of community cohesion cut across Welsh Assembly Government policies, and underlined the importance of local analysis of cohesion issues in order to devise a local community cohesion response.
Source: All Wales Community Cohesion Strategy, Welsh Assembly Government (029 2082 5111)
Links: Consultation document
Date: 2009-Jan
