Our blogs highlight our work both on a national and local scale. We frequently write blogs for organisations such as Children in Scotland and The Health Foundation. As part of our evaluation of the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme we regularly share our learning across the different stages of the programme through our blog series ‘Shaping our thinking, Sharing our learning.’ All blogs can be accessed below.
Shaping Places for Wellbeing in Scotland
In this blog for The Health Foundation, Irene Beautyman, Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead for the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme, shares how the Programme is putting wellbeing at the heart of decision making, highlighting how place- based decisions about proposals and plans in local areas are informed and supported, including what the learning has been so far.
The importance of place-based working
An insightful blog from Michelle McCormack Health Improvement Programme Officer (Place Standard) at Public Health Scotland which highlights the transformative impact of our Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme. Michelle, who also supports on our Programme, details how the work is being used in place-based decision making to prevent ill health and reduce inequalities within two of the Project Towns the Programme is working in – Alloa and Fraserburgh.
Shaping Places for Wellbeing: a partnership approach
The places where people live have a significant impact on not just how long they live but on enabling them to live free from illness during that longer life. The Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme grew from a desire to ensure that everyone in Scotland can live in a place that has the characteristics that will nurture health and wellbeing.
How can we deliver places we can be proud of for our future generations?
In this blog for Children in Scotland, Irene Beautyman looks at why embedding outcomes into our new national planning framework could help us slash Scotland’s shocking health inequalities.
Scotland's NPF4 - Going for the triple win
In this blog for the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Irene Beautyman reflects on how we deliver a triple win - for climate change, health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities - with our new National Planning Framework.
How does community food growing increase the wellbeing our of places?
In this blog for SURF, Alex Wilde, Local Project Lead for Dunoon, looks at the role of community food growing in a place, what contribution it makes and how it supports wider strategic objectives to increase the wellbeing of our places.
Current and future ambitions
In this blog, we set out the approach we take when starting work in a local Project Town. This can be complex to determine and involves scoping out what is influencing the town and what is happening nationally, regionally and locally.
Shaping Places for Wellbeing in Ayr
The Project Lead in Ayr summarises her first 100 days in the role, the opportunities the programme offers through bringing together anchor organisations, services and communities , and shares her reflections on what she has learned so far.
Embedding data-led decision-making
Alex Wilde, Dunoon Project Lead in the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme, shares her key reflections for local action on our journey to support data-informed decision-making about our places. She outlines our approach to gathering data, examples of our findings and, crucially, what we learnt from the process.
Embedding the views of those experiencing inequality into decision making processes
In this blog, Sarah Rodway Swanson, Community Link Lead for Alloa, explains how the Community Link Leads bring quantitative data on Project Towns to life, to help us understand what it means for people who live in these communities.
If you are looking at place-based approaches, or if the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme sounds like something you would like to know more about, please contact Irene Beautyman, Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead, below or follow us on X (Twitter) @place4wellbeing to keep up to date with all of our latest news
Irene Beautyman - Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead
Phone: 07908 930763
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Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme
The Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme is a joint delivery partnership between the Improvement Service and Public Health Scotland. This forum is for those interested in our work supporting the role of place to reduce inequality and improve the wellbeing of people and planet.
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Place Network
For those interested in the importance of place as a working approach to delivering national outcomes around improved wellbeing and inclusive growth.