The first comprehensive scoping review of 28 studies of ten interventions which unconditionally provided substantial cash transfers to individuals or families.
An outcome-focused evaluation of High Life: Highland’s Falls Prevention Programme
An outcome-focused evaluation of High Life Highland’s programme to prevent falls by older adults.
Submission to Locality’s Inquiry: Keeping It Local Call for Evidence
What Works Scotland’s submission to the Locality inquiry Keeping it Local in July 2018, a call for the latest thinking and practice shaping the future of our public services
Making data meaningful: Evidence use in a community planning partnership in Scotland
Case study report that highlights the complex and diverse ways in which public services use evidence in decision-making processes using information gathered from a Scottish community planning partnership.
Policy briefing: Public service leadership: What works?
This policy briefing focuses how public service leadership needs to change to lead organisations involved in collaboration, co-production, community engagement and partnership.
Policy briefing: Public service leadership: Rethinking leadership for collaborative settings
This policy briefing focuses why we need to rethink leadership practice in public services and what works for leadership in collaborative settings.
Action Research in Policy Analysis: ‘Sanction and sanctuary’ in Scottish collaborative governance
Book chapter about action research theory and practice that draws on illustrations from two community planning partnerships. It discusses the relational strategies required to carry out action research in these complex public service partnership settings, including cultivating ‘sanction and sanctuary’.
Blog: Community social enterprises: innovators in public service reform?
Blog post by Aidan Pia, Director of Senscot (Social Entrepreneurs Network Scotland) considering the potential of community social enterprise to innovate, lead and contribute in complex ways to the Christie Commission agenda of partnership, participation and prevention.
Think piece: Community-led solutions within multi-layered partnership working
Reflections by a local development worker on the challenges of encouraging and supporting community interest in developing, designing and delivering effective, local solutions in partnerships.
Stories from the coalface: Exploring what it means to work together in Aberdeenshire
Reflections by participants in the Aberdeenshire collaborative action research on what they learned from the different projects and what they are continuing to learn from the experience.
