Outcome focused partnerships
Discusses how 'collaborative gain' can help shape the way that partnerships approach the task of delivering enhanced outcomes within communities.
Focusing mainstream resources
Considers how Community Planning Partnerships can mainstream effective poverty and community regeneration programmes. Examines what we mean by the term and Scotland's history of 'ring fenced funds'.
The evidence base for an outcomes approach
About the evidence base to support the development of strategic and operational approaches to achieving key community regeneration and tackling poverty outcomes.
How to deliver more effective and efficient housing management
This briefing paper sets out how organisations working in housing management in Scotland can identify and make efficiency improvements. It highlights some quick wins along with outlining the key stages required to embed continuous improvement in an organisation and its culture.
Community regeneration and tackling poverty learning network: Lessons learned 2009 - 2011
This briefing paper captures messages relating to the three main priorities agreed for the network: embedding an outcomes based approach in anti poverty and regeneration activities; tackling complex needs and adapting to a new context for regeneration.
Mixed and sustainable communities learning network: Lessons learned 2009 - 2011
This briefing paper captures messages related to the three main priorities agreed for the the network: connecting housing with wider regeneration and community planning; improving the understanding about the importance of place-making and identifying new funding and delivery models.
Town centres and local high streets learning network: Lessons learned 2009 - 2011
This briefing paper captures messages relating to the two main priorities agreed for the network: town centre and whole town strategies and performance management of town centres.
Writing and talking about poverty
This briefing from Dr John McKendrick of the Institute for Society and Social Justice Research (Glasgow Caledonian University) is about how community regeneration practitioners should describe poverty in their writing and presentations.
Tackling poverty in local areas
This paper represents Dr John McKendrick's reflections on the issues currently surrounding tackling poverty in local areas and its related strategies. It proposes that, although we face challenges overcoming deprivation which may persist at an area level, local action can play a key role in tackling poverty.
Social Enterprises and Town Centre Regeneration
The Town Centres and Local High Streets learning network has identified a need for better understanding about the challenges facing social enterprises within town centres. This briefing paper draws on a review of documents on social enterprises and telephone interviews with people who work alongside social enterprises.
Participation in Placemaking
This paper aims to challenge traditional ways of thinking and working. It argues that conventional ways of making places have, generally, not created places of the quality that public demands. It explores how we can better connect placemaking and community empowerment and how we can bring together the built environment agendas of placemaking and design with the community agendas of social enterprise, learning and empowerment.
Family Businesses and Town Centre Regeneration
The Scottish Family Business Association (SFBA) and the Town Centres and Local High Streets Learning Network held workshops in Hamilton, Paisley, Inverness and Glenrothes for family businesses located within these town centres. Discussions were around the views of family businesses, the current situation of the towns, how the town got into that situation and possible solutions.
The Issues and Challenges in Delivering More Energy Efficient Housing in Scotland
This paper considers the drivers behind the push to ramp up energy efficiency in Scotland, the economic and funding environment and the legislative and policy context. It also highlights examples of good practice approaches to improving energy efficiency.
Issues and Lessons From Freiburg Study Visit
The German city of Freiburg was recipient of the Academy of Urbanism European City of the year award for 2010, this coupled with the cities reputation of the green capitol of Europe made it an attractive learning opportunity. This briefing shares the issues, lessons and learning shared by attendees who took part in the Mixed and Sustainable Communities Learning Network study visit to Freiburg.
Routes into Regeneration: A Guide to Structures and Planning for Housing Associations
A guide to help housing associations ensure that their regeneration activities contribute successfuly to local outcomes. Its key message is the importance of knowing local approaches and structures and how to work successfully within them.
Why Do We Need to Deliver More Effective and Efficient Housing Management?
Forms a foundation for the Scottish Centre for Regeneration Housing Management and Efficiencies Learning Network. Provides the context within which housing management activities are taking place and examines some of the challenges that are facing the social rented sector.
Achieving Outcomes Through Collaborative Gain
Discusses what is meant by an 'outcomes approach' and how the concept of 'collaborative gain' can be drawn upon to help shape the way that partnerships approach the task of delivering enhanced outcomes within communities.
Money Advice at the Crossroads
The combination of the credit crunch and a recession in 2008 has put further pressure on money advice services at a point when public spending is tightening. New ways of working, including use of new technologies, is transforming the way that money advice services are delivered.
Embracing Social Return on Investment (SROI)
Briefing paper sets the Social Return on Investment (SROI) model in context for registered social landlords (RSLs) and explores the model's potential to support RSLs to enhance their accountability, to improve organisational effectiveness and to access the resource for broader regeneration activities.
Whole Town Strategies - Who is Doing What in Scotland?
Maps out how local authorities and their partners are approaching town centre regeneration and the extent to which Whole Town Strategies are part of this picture.
Learning and Networking to Support Growth and Change in Towns
This paper looks at how organisations are sharing their practice and learning from each other through networks and activities; what activities and learning tools seemed to be effective; new or emerging examples of supporting learning about towns or other relevant fields; examples of individual learning being embedded in people's own jobs and their organisation; and how the outcomes of learning were being captured and shared.