Key messages about public service reform in Scotland
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Our key findings
The key findings reflect the eight themes which emerged though our research programme.
Themes
Publications and resources
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
Outcomes and prevention
Evaluation and scrutiny
Approaches to generating and using evidence
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Reflections on the What Works Scotland initiative
A short report that compiles reflections from What Works Scotland participants and shares the learning from the set-up and operation of this innovative, creative and complex research collaboration.
Our case sites
We worked with community planning partnerships in Aberdeenshire, Fife, Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire, using a collaborative action research approach.
Aberdeenshire
Fife
Glasgow
West Dunbartonshire
See more about all the case sites and the collaborative action research