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The Scottish approach to public service reform: lessons from What Works Scotland – seminar

What Works Scotland shared and discussed key learning from the overall WWS programme, offering an overview of findings from eight areas of research and practice.

Lucy Janes May 16, 2019 Read more

Children and young people: using research and evidence to make change happen

This seminar shared the most recent insights and learning on what works in place-based approaches to improving outcomes for children and young people, drawing on findings from two What Works centres: What Works Scotland and the Wales Centre for Public Policy.

Lucy Janes March 21, 2019 Read more

Effective leadership and networked governance: Public service and community leadership – What works and why?

Seminar that drew together some of the key findings from the What Works Scotland research on public service and community leadership, and was a forum for discussion of ideas and responses to develop leadership that takes our public services and the leadership agenda to the next level.

Lucy Janes November 7, 2018 Read more

Webinar: Transforming communities? Exploring the roles of community anchor organisations in public service reform – supporting, leading and challenging?

Webinar looking at the role of community anchors in public service reform, drawing on our research report on community-led, holistic community organisations.

Lucy Janes October 5, 2018 Read more

Webinar: Participatory budgeting and its potential for community empowerment and social justice

Audio, slides and transcription from a webinar which looked what needs to happen to ensure that the mainstreaming of PB simultaneously carves out space for more complex participatory and deliberative processes in local government decision-making.

Lucy Janes October 1, 2018 Read more

Research, collaboration and inspection: towards a research-informed system

In this seminar Professor Daniel Muijs, Head of Research at OfSTED, spoke about encouraging the development of evidence-informed approaches across the education sector.

Lucy Janes August 22, 2018 Read more

Evidence to Action: what works for public service reform

Seminar to present key What Works Scotland learnings from Evidence to Action projects and practical advice and tools for incorporating the use of evidence in decision-making and public service delivery.

Lucy Janes May 24, 2018 Read more

Taking a Deliberative Approach to Complexity: What can we learn from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit?

This seminar examined what we can learn from the experience of holding a Citizens’ Assembly about Brexit and considered the role of participatory processes like this in current decision-making in Scotland.

Lucy Janes December 14, 2017 Read more

Conducting CAR with public services: insights from the research process

How What Works Scotland is sharing our insights and learning from working with a range of public service partners to co-produce research inquiries and processes using a collaborative action research (CAR) approach.

Lucy Janes November 20, 2017 Read more

A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services

This partnership event in November 2017 with Carnegie UK Trust and the University of Edinburgh discussed the findings of the What Do Citizens Want? research on how support services fit into people’s day to day lives.

Lucy Janes November 13, 2017 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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  • What Works Scotland closed but resources still available February 18, 2020
  • Extending the community sector inquiry through a cross-sector learning community? June 5, 2019
  • Community-led activity: time to invest in expansion June 5, 2019
  • Tackling inequalities by supporting 'enterprising' communities June 5, 2019
  • Exploring community anchors, public service reform... and the wider local community sector June 5, 2019

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