Authors: Ken Gibb and Claire Bynner, What Works Scotland

Date: 4 March 2015

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.

A core part of our work at What Works Scotland involves working with our case study partners in four community planning partnership (CPP) areas, one of which is West Dunbartonshire CPP.

The work of local officers spans a vast range of policy areas from economic regeneration, education, unemployment, long- term ill health and comorbidity, equalities, as well as local history, tourism and culture.

West Dunbartonshire is the tenth smallest Scottish local authority by population (circa 90,000) and the second smallest in terms of land area. West Dunbartonshire combines a high density settlement (Clydebank) with a more rural hinterland beyond the market town of Dumbarton. In addition to struggling to manage the post-industrial economic context, West Dunbartonshire has relatively high levels of ESA and JSA claimants and employment or income-based deprivation.

Read the post on the What Works Scotland blog