The 'go to' organisation for Local Government improvement in Scotland

Representatives from the Improvement Service, Public Health Scotland, Directors of Public Health, Heads of Planning Scotland, COSLA and Health Improvement Managers are combining our expertise and evidence to:

• articulate the evidenced aspects of every place that enable health and wellbeing into a set of Place and Wellbeing Outcomes and embed them into place-based decision making.
• develop a set of Place and Wellbeing indicators to monitor delivery of the Outcomes and undertake ongoing generation of evidence that supports them.
• promote the role of the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes as anchors for system change as embedded in the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme.
• combine our evidence and expertise to inform national policy on the need for the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes to be given consistent national support when assessing the impact of plans and policy on place and wellbeing.
• promote the value of the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes when delivering places that support Scotland's Local Living and 20-minute neighbourhood ambition.
• embed and broaden links between planning, place, and health practitioners by working closely with Public Health Scotland to support turning evidence on delivering healthy places into practice.

Our work so far

Place and Wellbeing: Integrating land use planning and public health in Scotland

The Place and Wellbeing Collaborative has recently updated their Place and Wellbeing: integrating land use planning and public health in Scotland briefing paper.

The briefing raises awareness of the impact that the places where people live, work and play have on their health and wellbeing. It provides practical guidance for land use planners, public health practitioners and policy makers to work together, using a whole systems approach to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. It introduces land use planners to the public health system and public health professionals to the planning system and outlines a number of key opportunities for more integrated working to realise shared ambitions.