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Think piece: Issues arising when seeking to develop community linking approaches to community capacity-building that can support health and social care integration

Think piece by Alison Grant from Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action in which she reflects on the issues that arise when developing community linking approaches to build capacity in the community to support health and social care integration

Social Sciences Communications July 13, 2018 Read more

Blog: Understanding and utilising social security sanctions data at the local level

This blog from January 2016 by Dr Hayley Bennett, What Works Scotland, Gary Smith and Coryn Barclay from Fife Council, explores the sanctions data available through the Department of Work and Pensions and how it can be used at a local level.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Getting Knowledge into Action in Fife

Report from a What Works Scotland event where 50 people from across Fife Council, the health, and voluntary sectors met to discuss how to get knowledge into action in Fife. It followed a previous national event on Getting Knowledge in Action in Public Services, held in Edinburgh earlier in 2015.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Mapping the frontiers of collaborative governance

Exploration of a March 2018 report generated by the work of What Works Scotland, Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership and partners into emerging multi-layered preventative partnership working in the Aberdeenshire area. 

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Reflections on the welfare inquiry experience – Building and enhancing partnership working

Gary Smith, a member of the Fife welfare reform inquiry team reflects, in December 2017, on the experience and impact of the collaborative action research activities for What Works Scotland.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Making data meaningful in West Dunbartonshire

Blog about a project which examines how evidence is being used in West Dunbartonshire to make decisions and how it could be made more useful for community planning partners and local communities.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Working with What Works Scotland

Francesca Ainsworth, Sophie Humphries and Ally Macleod from Aberdeenshire Council highlight their plans for working with What Works Scotland in December 2014.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: What Works in Fife?

Tim Kendrick, strategic lead for the Fife What Works Scotland case site area, explains in November 2014 what the collaborative work will focus on in his area.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: Meet the WWS staff, Research Fellows Richard Brunner and Claire Bynner

Mini-biographies of two of the research associates when they started working for What Works Scotland in the case study areas, West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 Read more

Blog: ‘Fractals’, Community Planning and Placed-based Policy Geography in West Dunbartonshire

What Works Scotland’s Ken Gibb and Claire Bynner reflect on starting work with West Dunbartonshire Council as one of our What Works Scotland case study partners. The blog looks at key challenges and shifting to an integrated preventative agenda.

Social Sciences Communications July 11, 2018 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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