What Works Scotland

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Our key findings

The key findings reflect the eight themes which emerged though our research programme.

Themes

Context and background

Community engagement, capacity-building and participation

• Co-production
• Community capacity-building
• Community empowerment
• Community sector & socially-owned economy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory decision-making

Key issues for public services

• Economic regeneration
• Educational achievement
• Education improvement
• Health and social care integration
• Housing
• Place-based approaches
• Poverty and inequality
• Third sector
• Welfare reform

Workforce development, partnership working and leadership

• Leadership
• Partnership and collaboration
• Relationships

Outcomes and prevention

• Outcomes-based approaches
• Prevention

Evaluation and scrutiny

• Evaluation approaches
• Scrutiny and inspection

Approaches to generating and using evidence

• Capabilities approach
• Collaborative action research
• Evidence to action
• Scaling up
• Using data