Health Education Authority - Community Development

Material collated by Lee Adams when Director of the Health Education Authority, 1989-1991, relating to community development work by the HEA and the government's attitude to it.

The file documents liaison with the government, and governmental pressure upon the Health Education Authority, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The government's stance was that the HEA should focus upon a few high profile media campaigns rather than upon community work; the suggestion in some of the articles in this file is that community work highlighted a link between ill-health and poverty that was potentially embarrassing to the government.

Included are:

1/ HEA Operational Plan for 1989/90

2/ HEA and government papers and correspondence relating to the HEA's "Look After Your Heart" campaign and the community work that was intended to form a part of this. Within these papers is included a leaflet on terminology issued by the Health Education Authority, Professional and Community Development Division in November 1988, whose text is used as an appendix to one of the letters to government.

3/ Background information in the shape of publications, namely: Community Work (newsletter of the Association of Community Workers), no.139, March 1991, article on a Radio 4 programme "Face the Facts" looking at the alleged declining role of the Health Education Authority; and articles from Health Matters no.2 and The Guardian 6 December 1989, on government pressure upon the Health Education Authority.