If the plan is approved, six groups will be set up within the department including a Places group - with responsibility for local area agreements, regeneration, faith and community cohesion, as well as social exclusion - and a Strategy and National Programmes group, which will cover homelessness and the Supporting People initiative.
Above the six groups will sit nine programme executives, which will report to ministers - led by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Ruth Kelly - and the board of the department.
The DCLG has taken on much of the work of the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on housing, regeneration, neighbourhood renewal and local government.
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