Access to and Quality in Rural Services

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Access to and Quality in Rural Services

• Catherine Chater

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Introduction

• The Rural Population
• 2003
• Growth
• Age Profile
• Life Cycles

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Introduction

• Rural Definition
• The need to define
• District and Unitary Authorities
• Ward Level
• Access
• People, activity and links
• Expand the space
• Move to the people

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Policies, Delivery, Mechanisms and Measures

• Central Government
• Regional Government
• Local Authorities
• Local Strategic Partnerships
• Market Towns

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Rural Services

• Retail Outlets and Post Offices
• Access and closures
• Adverse factors
• Service Standard 2003
• Development pressures
• Individual enterprise

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Rural Services

• Pubs
• Access and closures
• Threats
• Support
• Diversification

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Rural Services

• Village Halls and Community Buildings
• Main use
• Potential use
• Lack of funding
• Onerous regulations

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Rural Services

• Schools and Childcare
• Access and closures
• Fluctuating picture
• Problematic funding
• Extended Schools
• Provision for three year olds
• Threats
• Recruitment and retention of staff.
• Transport

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Rural Services

• Health and Community Care
• Structural changes
• Improved integration of services
• Transport issues
• Mixed picture of local services
• Dental care
• A Healthy place to live ?

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Rural Services

• Policing and Crime
• Levels of Crime
• Fear of crime
• Additional Policing support
• Specifically rural crime

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Rural Services

• Information and Communication Technology
• Broadband
• Community venues
• Delivering other services
• Negative impacts

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Rural Services

• Rural Mobility
• Key workers
• Car ownership
• Youth employment initiatives
• Subsidised routes
• Demand- responsive services

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Affordable Housing

• Access to rural housing
• Key priority
• Inadequate funding
• Right to Buy and gentrification

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Key Issues for Rural Services in England

• Positive
• Integration of services
• ICT
• Policy protection
• Innovation
• Community Involvement

• Negative
• Staffing
• Social exclusion
• Development pressure
• Transport
• Affordable Housing
• Funding