Home Summary and Background Key Considerations Method and Timetable Contact the Team Project Funding Outputs	Key Considerations for the Study The evidence of need for ongoing community development work; The aims, values and expectations of community development work and the different methods, approaches and models for addressing these; The role of community development workers in meeting specific targets, particularly around the delivery of local regeneration frameworks and the scope for community development work to take on a geographic and/or thematic focus; The accountability of CD work, both to funding programmes, and to the communities themselves; The development of community development worker networking to share good practice and the strengthening of linkages/communication between CDWs on the ground and with local decision-making structures (e.g. Local Strategic Partnerships); The role for community development work in bridging the gap between existing and new communities, including the potential to give CDW support to new communities to foster participation in community life and promote community cohesion.