In this think piece the former community links worker in Insch, in Aberdeenshire, reflects on her three years of experience working on the project and what she learned.
Think piece: Reflections on developing a strategic approach to community capacity-building within the HSCP and the CPP
Reflections from Kim Penman, Health and Well-being Lead, Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership on a collaborative learning process used to developed a shared approach to community capacity-building with a diverse range of community partners and organisations.
Think piece: Reflections on taking forward the Local Outcomes Improvement Plan Priority on Child Poverty
George Howie reflects on the connection between upstream action to address inequality and preventative action by partners at a local or regional level.
Think piece: Issues arising when seeking to develop community linking approaches to community capacity-building that can support health and social care integration
Think piece by Alison Grant from Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action in which she reflects on the issues that arise when developing community linking approaches to build capacity in the community to support health and social care integration
Blog: Third sector leadership – the promise of collective accounts of leadership
Guest bloggers James Rees, Carol Jacklin-Jarvis and Vita Terry from the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership examine the challenges and opportunities offered in June 2018 by adopting collective leadership practices in third and voluntary sector organisations.
Blog: Can we tackle poverty by changing how we talk about it?
Dr Hayley Bennett from What Works Scotland, discusses the Poverty Alliance’s Stick Your Labels campaign (May 2015) to address the stigma of poverty.
Blog: Closing the commissioning gap: Supporting community and social enterprise through participatory budgeting
Guest blogger Jez Hall, from PB Partners, discusses the potential role of participatory budgeting in future community service provision. Published May 2015.
Blog: Co-production: Do we know what it is and what it achieves?
Guest blogger Elinor Findlay from the Scottish Government, discusses our understanding of ‘co-production’. It’s an increasingly popular term in May 2015 but what does it mean for how services are designed and delivered?
Blog: Time for change – a delegate’s response to Community-led Approaches to Reducing Poverty
Pam Dawson of the Placed-based Programme run by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland, writes about her experience of the What Works Scotland seminars on reducing poverty held in Clydebank and Dundee in September 2016.
Blog: What is the future of ‘doing good’ in the UK?
What Works Scotland’s Jane Cullingworth writes about The Big Lottery Fund’s 2016 report—The Future of ‘Doing Good’ in the UK, and one of the launch events it organised across the UK to stimulate discussion.