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Changing Lives, Delivering Success

Oliver Escobar and Claire Bynner from the What Works Scotland team were among those contributing to the Scottish Government’s 2015 Community Planning Conference entitled Changing Lives, Delivering Success: Turning Ambition into Action which took place in Glasgow on 26th June 2015.

Watch the short film which captures the essence of this inspiring event.

See the short film on the Media Co-op Vimeo channel 

Claire Bynner’s presentation:  What Works in Place-based Approaches? (PDF)

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What Works Scotland is an initiative to improve the way local areas in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development and reform. We were set up to explore 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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