Community regeneration
Fairer Scotland Fund
Scottish Government Q & A.
Single Outcome Agreements
Scottish Government briefing.
How do we change the way people feel and think about places
Looks at what action can be taken to change negative perceptions into positive ones as part of the wider regeneration of neighbourhoods.
Successful regeneration: the practitioners view
Records the views of practitioners working at project level in the regeneration field on what makes regeneration effective, and what factors helped or hindered them in the establishment of good practice.
Income inequality and poverty
Achieving Our Potential
Framework aimed at tackling poverty and income inequality in Scotland, launched by the Scottish Government on November 24, 2008. Supported by funding of £7.5 million, Achieving Our Potential sets out the joint approach of the Scottish Government and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) in the fight against poverty.
Poverty Alliance Briefing 9- Tackling Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation in Scotland
Summary of the Scottish Government Discussion Paper
Poverty Alliance Briefing 8 - Different in Scotland? Public Attitudes to Poverty A Discussion paper
Employability
Equal access - full employment for all
How the EQUAL initiative, funded by the European Commission, worked in Scotland. It gives details about lessons from the EQUAL Access Development Partnership which was established in 2002 to bring together policy makers, practitioners and academics with a common interest in the labour market and inclusion.
Is work good for your health?
The links between health and employment. Based on the learning from a Scottish Government event for senior staff involved in health, social work and employability sectors. This event was the first of its kind in Scotland to share best practice, and find better ways of working together to improve health through employment.
Working together to create ways to employment
Joint working in health, social care and employment services. Draws lessons from the Re:Focus Development Partnership. The partnership of 98 organisations was set up in 2005 to pilot 22 Glasgow projects on new ways that health, social care and employment services could jointly support people into work.
A case management approach in tackling employability issues
About the work of the EQUAL Access Development Partnership which brought together policymakers, practitioners and academics with a common interest in the labour market and social inclusion. The partnership tested new ways of joint working between employment and health services that can help individuals facing barriers such as ill health, disability and caring responsibilities improve their chances of finding work.
Young people, early years and education
The Early Years Framework
Scottish Government framework is about giving all our children the best start in life, and the steps the Scottish Government, local partners and practitioners in early years services need to take to start us on that journey.
Connecting schools, young people and community regeneration
Explores how education and regeneration professionals can better work together by identifying common areas of interest and sharing examples of good practice.
Health and wellbeing
Equally Well Implementation Plan
The plan, produced in partnership with COSLA, identifies who is responsible for taking forward the recommendations contained in Equally Well - The Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities. The plan describes how the Scottish Government and community planning partnerships can and will turn Equally Well's recommendations into action in both the medium and short term.
Equally Well
The report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities.
Equally Well Test Sites
Details of the Equally Well Test Sites.
Making sense of smoking cessation
The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for Local Government in England has published information that shows that smoking continues to be a major issue for public bodies in their efforts to improve population health. This has been reflected in the local area agreement (LAA) process and this document reviews existing knowledge about the issues, provides information on what works and describes lessons have has been learned to date.
Health and regeneration: shared premises
Looks at how health and other regeneration partners share premises (a way of working together sometimes called 'co-location') to provide better and more integrated services. Considers the different ways, the challenges and the lessons of sharing space.
How can mainstream health services contribute to regeneration?
How mainstream, or day-to-day, health services provided by general practitioners (GPs) and other primary care staff in local health centres can contribute to regeneration and suggests ways they can be a catalyst or a partner in change.
Service delivery
Using Evidence to Mainstream Equalities in Regeneration
Communities Scotland published a report in 1996 which includes a number of sources of information and tools for analysis. This gives information about the (then) legislative framework, suggests ways of gathering evidence and provides tools to help develop an evidence base.
EQUAL Social Economy Scotland - Business development
Looks at four Social Economy Scotland (SES) pilot business development projects and describes the lessons learned from each.
Equal Social Economy Scotland - Public social partnerships (PSPs)
Looks at the lessons learned from two Social Economy Scotland pilot schemes developed in partnership between social economy and public sector agencies.
Equal Social Economy Scotland - Measuring social added value
Lessons learned from a number of Social Economy Scotland pilot projects which looked at how to measure the impact (social added value) of their work on the community.
Using evidence to help plan regeneration
Summarises the discussions at an event which showcased how evidence has been used in planning four different examples of regeneration work in Scotland.
Making the best use of evidence in outcome agreements
Drawn from an event for monitoring and evaluation officers who had been involved in developing regeneration outcome agreements (ROAs). The key lessons related to making outcome agreements most effective, they must be supported by good information, have an identified need for activities, and demonstrate progress towards outcomes.
Integrating health and employment services in tackling employability
The work of the EQUAL Access Development Partnership - which brought together policy makers, practitioners and academics with a common interest in the labour market and social inclusion. The partnership tested new ways of joint working between employment and health services to help people improve their chances of finding work when they face barriers such as ill health, disability and caring responsibilities.
Service user involvement in employability
Describes how the EQUAL SUI project carried out a literature review about engaging service users and the benefits to them. It then shared the lessons from other sectors that employability partners could use in the management, design and delivery of their services which could give clients a stronger role in improving service quality.
Creating pathways to work
How the EQUAL Employability Development Partnership worked locally, nationally and internationally to try out new ways of supporting people into work. It focused on helping people who need the most training and support to find work.
Developing Business Juggler as part of a continuous improvement approach within the voluntary, housing and social economy sectors
Looks at the challenges of introducing continuous improvement to organisations working in the voluntary, social economy and housing sectors across Scotland.
Social economy organisations and successful partnerships
About how social economy organisations can work in partnership with other organisations to help disadvantaged communities. Social economy organisations combine a businesslike approach to delivering services with one or more explicit social objectives.
Involving the arts in community regeneration
Developed from two learning events in early 2005 targeted at partner organisations but also involving those working in the arts. Aimed to give some background and context to arts and regeneration, then offer some examples through case studies, finishing with discussion and debate on shared experiences and knowledge.
The arts and regeneration: working in partnership
About making sure that culture is integrated at every stage of community planning and development. This is called cultural planning and in this context culture means art, music, theatre and literature in their broadest forms. Cultural planning is an approach to making communities better places for residents to live, which puts people and culture at its centre.
Equalities in community regeneration: making it mainstream
Looks at raising awareness of equalities issues and tackling them within the context of regeneration. Explores racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia and ethnocentrism, and the responsibility we all share for illuminating and eliminating them. Presents principles for raising awareness and changing perceptions and practice, with the aim of getting these views into the mainstream.
Community engagement and empowerment
Joint Statement of Commitment to Community Empowerment
Published in April 2008 by the Scottish Government and COSLA to establish a long-term path to ensuring community empowerment.
National Standards for Community Engagement
Launched in May 2005, the National Standards set out best practice principles for the way that government agencies, councils, health boards, police and other public bodies engage with communities. The idea for developing the standards came from people on the front line of community engagement.
Better Community Engagement: A Framework for Learning
Sets out a framework of competencies designed to enable the planning of learning in community engagement, and to test models for delivering effective learning for community engagement.
Developing buildings as community assets
Captures the key lessons from the masterclass: 'Delivering Buildings as Community Assets.' Focuses on issues that are important if agencies are to help communities successfully take on the challenges involved.
Involving communities in Scotland with an ageing population
About 'active ageing', a term used to describe an ideal, integrated and aware community that offers choice to the older person. Looks at how we could develop our communities to support an older population that has very different expectations from previous generations.
Appreciative inquiry: from vision to action
About taking a vision for regenerating a community and putting it into action using appreciative inquiry methods. Appreciative inquiry highlights the most positive aspects of a community organisation. It encourages people to imagine the best that their community or organisation can be and then translate these possibilities into action.
Asset based community development: making the most of a community's strengths
Discusses the work of the Asset Based Community Development Institute in Chicago, and in particular the work of John McKnight and his colleagues there. Examines how public sector organisations look at communities and how communities look at themselves, and how bringing these two elements together leads to effective community development.
Rural issues
Rural Development in the Highlands and Islands
Product of 'Rural development in the Highlands and Islands' - a practice event in Inverness in September 2005. Organised by the Scottish Centre for Regeneration, and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the event brought together partners and networks from across the north of Scotland to exchange information about what works for community regeneration in remote rural areas.
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