Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia
Local government in Australia has become an important site for discussions about community development and community well being, as increasing numbers of community services are being devolved to this level. Pressures towards greater accountability and demonstration of competitiveness, stemming from...
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Australian Council of Social Service
2003
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| author | Saggers, Sherry Carter, M. Boyd, S. Cooper, T. Sonn, C. |
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| description | Local government in Australia has become an important site for discussions about community development and community well being, as increasing numbers of community services are being devolved to this level. Pressures towards greater accountability and demonstration of competitiveness, stemming from the implementation of National Competition Policy have led to attempts to better measure community development activities. In this paper we report on research conducted among management, elected members and community workers at five Western Australian Local Government Authorities which explored the nature and appropriateness of community development measurement. We found workers at all levels of employment struggling, not simply with notions of measurement, but also with fundamental understandings of community development. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-61822017-01-30T10:51:12Z Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia Saggers, Sherry Carter, M. Boyd, S. Cooper, T. Sonn, C. Local government in Australia has become an important site for discussions about community development and community well being, as increasing numbers of community services are being devolved to this level. Pressures towards greater accountability and demonstration of competitiveness, stemming from the implementation of National Competition Policy have led to attempts to better measure community development activities. In this paper we report on research conducted among management, elected members and community workers at five Western Australian Local Government Authorities which explored the nature and appropriateness of community development measurement. We found workers at all levels of employment struggling, not simply with notions of measurement, but also with fundamental understandings of community development. 2003 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6182 Australian Council of Social Service fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Saggers, Sherry Carter, M. Boyd, S. Cooper, T. Sonn, C. Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title | Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title_full | Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title_fullStr | Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title_short | Measuring community development: Perspectives from local government in Western Australia |
| title_sort | measuring community development: perspectives from local government in western australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6182 |