ABSTRACT
Two other schemes that ran in the early and mid-1970s, the Neighbourhood Scheme and the Comprehensive Community Programme, further underlined the limitations of action-research projects, the weaknesses in government approaches and the obstacles faced by project workers. Created by the Conservative government in 1971, the Neighbourhood Scheme was launched by the Home Office's Community Programmes Department. The Comprehensive Community Programme that emerged in 1974 was also slimmed down to just one project in Gateshead. The result was the Comprehensive Community Programme, an organisational and management-led scheme. The perceived need for a corporate approach was underlined in a topic paper connected to Bradford's Comprehensive Community Programme plans. While the Craigneuk programme proposed to focus on the concentration of deprivation in specific neighbourhoods, using a community-based approach, the Programme in England adopted a different method. The Neighbourhood Scheme reflected the underlying problems in trying to provide facilities even for a small community.
