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Author: Lynda Frazer

Launch of Participatory Budgeting Scotland Report by GCPH & WWS

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health and What Works Scotland have today published Participatory budgeting in Scotland to complement the launch of the Scottish Government’s new participatory budgeting website. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a process of involving citizens in deciding

Lynda Frazer December 4, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

New Evidence Review – Partnerships

Partnership Working Across the Public Sector in the UK – Evidence Review and Briefing Paper published today

Lynda Frazer December 3, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Report from WWS CAR Retreat Event Published

See the report from WWS’s first Collaborative Action Retreat event with Case Study partners here  

Lynda Frazer October 21, 2015 Uncategorized Read more

Challenge Poverty Week

17th – 23rd October is Challenge Poverty Week Click here  for a range of articles and to participate in discussions with academics based in universities across Scotland on topics such as poverty, inequality, or deprivation. Articles already available include: Morag Treanor: “Recent changes to measuring

Lynda Frazer October 21, 2015 poverty and inequality, Uncategorized Read more

What Works, Cross Whitehall Trials Advice Panel – new website

Cross Whitehall Trials Advice Panel, set up by the Cabinet Office What Works Team, now has an external website here . This publication explains how the Cross-Government Trial Advice Panel will help civil servants to use evidence in decision-making. Panel members include,

Lynda Frazer August 31, 2015 2015 Read more

Reimagining Community Planning in Scotland: A Vision from the Third Sector

New working paper published here (pdf)

Lynda Frazer August 12, 2015 2015, community empowerment, participatory decision-making Read more

New Blog – Think YES? How to deliver transformational change in relationships between staff, and managers and local people

See new blog from Claire Bynner and Ken Gibb here.

Lynda Frazer July 24, 2015 2015, leadership, relationships Read more

Cost of School Holidays – Literature Review

New WWS Brief Literature Review available here (pfd).

Lynda Frazer July 17, 2015 2015, educational achievement, inequality Read more

New Working Paper Published – Evaluability Assessment

New Working Paper Published –  Evaluability Assessment

Read our new publication – Evaluability Assessment: a systematic approach to deciding whether and how to evaluate programmes and policies (pdf).

Lynda Frazer July 3, 2015 2015 Read more
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What Works Scotland was an initiative to improve the way local areas in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development and reform. It explored how public services could start to work towards the recommendations of the Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services and the Scottish Government’s priorities for reform. ...

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