With next week's Spending Review looming, MPs need look no further than the East End of London for a successful model of joined-up community regeneration. The Bromley-by-Bow Centre serves Tower Hamlets, one of the UK's most deprived wards, by helping families, young people and adults to learn new skills, improve their health and well-being, find employment and develop the confidence to transform their lives.
Vocational learning manager Manda Simmons says, 'The centre is holistic for people's needs. They may come here for learning or to see the doctor, but we address their other needs too. We treat the person as a whole. Patients come here and doctors talk to them not just about ill health but all the wrap-around services that can help them. For example, if they are not taking their pills because they can't afford to buy them because their benefits have been cut, we can offer welfare and advice to them.
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