Library
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General
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Version 2 of the Checklist, issued December 2011
Final Evaluation report issued December 2011
Executive Summary from the final report issued in December 2011
The Falkirk Poverty Inequalities Profiles have been developed in order to identify inequalities amongst people and groups within the Falkirk area and to inform Falkirk Council’s Tackling Poverty Strategy.
Presentation from the workshop on outcomes focused partnerships, part of the 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration' project.
Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration - work with the IOM
20/06/2011
Presentation by Andrew Noble, Improvement Service on the work of the IS with Midlothian community planning partnership as part of the 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration' project.
Introduction to the 'Outcome focused working in a local context' workshop held on 25 March 2011. The presentation provides information on the Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration project and outlines the priorities of the workshop.
Presentation from the workshop to set the priorities and objectives for the Fife Sustainable Communities Group as part of the IS/SCR project, 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration'.
Embedding an outcomes approach in community regeneration and tackling poverty - Levenmouth LAC
20/06/2011
Presentation by Andrew Noble and Mark McAteer of the Improvement Service. The presentation gives the background to the 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration' project and outlines the work carried out with Levenmouth Local Area Committee as part of the project.
An outcome based approach to tackle poverty and deprivation in Levenmouth - how do we deliver?
20/06/2011
Presentation by Dave Paterson, Area Services Manager, Levenmouth given at the 'Outcome focused working in a local context' workshop on 25 March 2011.
Presentation from the workshop, 'Outcome focused working in a local context', held on 25 March 2011. The presentation outlines the work of Fife community planning partnership in Levenmouth as part of the 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and community regeneration' project
Presentation on the West Lothian Life Stages outcome planning programme.
An introduction to the West Lothian life stages outcome planning programme, which uses a life stage approach to planning and delivering interventions to tackle social equalities and build successful communities.
This paper looks at the issue of ‘mainstreaming’ and considers how Community Planning Partnerships can mainstream effective poverty and community regeneration programmes. It considers what we mean by the term and Scotland’s history of ‘ring fenced funds’. It sets out two approaches: refocusing budgets and services to become more effective and adapting service approaches. Case study examples are given from West Lothian Community Planning Partnership.
Paper on use of the evidence base to support the development of strategic and operational approaches to achieving key community regeneration and tackling poverty outcomes. There is a large amount of evidence available to Community Planning Partnerships to underpin the development of their poverty and regeneration strategies, and linking these to their Single Outcome Agreements. The paper outlines what is meant by evidence base, where evidence comes from, requirements for improving evidence use in policy and practice and learning from the Improvement Service (IS) / Scottish Centre for Regeneration (SCR) collaborative project, ‘Embedding an Outcomes Approach in Community Regeneration Tackling Poverty’.
