Timeline
Governments and Community Development Programmes 1960s-2000s
Source 1: Making Spaces for Community development – Michael Pitchford 2008 – The Policy Press with the CDF
Source 2: www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/pm
1960s
Government and Prime Ministers
Harold MacMillan – Cons – 1957-1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home – Cons – 1963-1964
Harold Wilson – Labour – 1964-1970
Projects and Programmes
Young Volunteer Force Foundation launched (1968)
Launch of Urban Programme (1968)
Community Development Project (Home Office) began (1969)
Reports
Gulbenkian Report (1968)
Seebohm Report (1968)
Fairbairn- Milson Report (1969)
Skeffington Report (1969)
Profession
Community Development Journal established (1966)
Association of Community Workers founded (1968)
Periods
Education
1970s
Government and Prime Ministers
Harold Wilson – Labour – 1964-1970
Edward Heath – Conservative – 1970-1974
Harold Wilson – Labour – 1974-1976
James Callaghan – Labour – 1976-1979
Margaret Thatcher – Conservative – 1979-1990
Projects and Programmes
Manpower Services Commission
Influence of Women’s’ Movement and Race
Reports
Gulbenkian Report (1973)
Alexander Report (1975)
Profession
Periods
Education and Social Work
1980s
Government and Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher – Conservative – 1979-1990
Projects and Programmes
Community Health Projects
Reports
Barclay Report on Community Social Work (1982)
Faith in the city (1985)
Community Development; The local authority role (1989)
Profession
Federation of Community Work Training Groups set up (1982)
First UK-wide Survey of Community Workers (1983)
Periods
Social Work and Economic Development
1990s
Government and Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher – Conservative – 1979-1990
John Major – Conservative – 1990-1997
Tony Blair – Labour – 1997-2007
Projects and Programmes
Community organising in the UK started
City Challenge
Urban Programme ends
Single Regeneration Budget
Reports
Community Development on Northern Ireland? Perspectives for the future (1991)
Local authorities and community development: A strategic opportunity for the 1990S (1993)
Profession
Standing Conference for Community Development (SCCD) established
Scottish Community Development Centre set up (1994)
Periods
Economic development and regeneration/neighbourhood renewal
2000s
Government and Prime Ministers
Tony Blair – Labour – 1997-2007
Gordon Brown – Labour 2007- 2010
David Cameron – Conservative 2010- 2016
Theresa May – Conservative- 2016-
Projects and Programmes
Reports
A new commitment to neighbourhood renewal (2001)
The community development challenge (2006)
Working with Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreements. Some lessons from New deal for Communities (2008) Communities and Local Govt publication
Profession
Strategic Framework for Community Development (2001)
Second Survey of Community Workers (2003)
Periods
Regeneration/neighbourhood renewal