Communities and demographics
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- Who accesses the services of charitable and voluntary organisations and social enterprises?
- Do these differ regionally or for different groups?
- What works in addressing barriers and increasing engagement of specific groups?
- Better understand and quantify the extent to which investment in grassroots facilities improves participation, including for underrepresented groups and in different parts of the country.
- Examine how sport, and interventions in sport, affect pride in place, levelling up, and other wider societal outcomes.
- How can schools and local partners work together effectively to reduce persistent and severe absence?
- How can collaboration between organisations, commissioners and other funders across CSY sectors and actors be enhanced at local levels to support better outcomes?
- How can levels of civil society and of pride in place in a local area be increased?
- What are the drivers of demand for services in this sector taking into account the needs of different groups?
- How can DWP best support places, regions and sectors in levelling up? What approaches work best in addressing employment skills development, employment skills shortages and employment skills mismatches across the UK?
- What are the benefits of greater equality of access?
- How can we better monitor and evaluate the impacts of road schemes, and other large-scale infrastructure projects, on the local environment and those who use and live in that that environment e.g., on cultural heritage sites in the area; on local residents, in terms of well-being and on local biodiversity?
- What are the impacts of lower/greater rates of engagement with voluntary sectors?
- Do different interventions work for different groups and in different contexts?
- What are the characteristics of those organisations (charities, youth organisations, social enterprises) working across this space?
- How does creative content affect cultural identity at both the national and local level?
- What are the benefits of increased levels of civil society participation and of pride in place, overall and in more localised areas?
- What are engagement levels across different groups?
- Analyse and explain the role and drivers of AHT sectors in creating a greater sense of pride in place in communities?
- What behavioural and technical interventions will improve the safety of public spaces and the public’s perception of their safety?
- What is the quality and value of services provided by the sector, relative to those offered by other sectors (eg. public sector)?
- To what extent does greater voluntary, community and social enterprise participation in procurement lead to better outcomes for people and communities including young people?
- What works in terms of improving diversity (defined as representation of protected characteristics and socio-demographic background to the UK population) within the creative industries sectors’ workforce to bring it closer to being representative of the UK workforce and audiences?
- What are the social and cultural impacts of digital engagement and how do they differ from or compliment physical engagement?
- What interventions can support communities to tap into and take ownership of social investment at local and “hyper-local” levels?
- What are the major barriers to volunteering for different demographic groups?
- What is the level of voluntary, community and social enterprise resilience at the sector level?
- What services are provided by those within this sector and how can these be enhanced?
- What factors influence the recruitment and retention of teachers at all stages of their careers – particularly in schools that serve disadvantaged communities?
- What affects and supports resilience at the organisational level?
- Which methods could be best implemented and provide robust estimates of in person engagement with cultural events, especially when activities are unticketed?
- What are the barriers to different groups engaging with civil society and youth sectors?
- How do issues related to CSY’s policy responsibilities affect pride in place and social capital at the local level?