Our most recent work has involved carrying out Social Return on Investment analyses on employability, assisting with a review of Intensive Family Support Services, and measuring the impact of the Place-based investment Programme- Capital Grants. In addition, we have provided general evaluation support and delivered a webinar series, and another is planned.
Social return on investment analysis (SROI)
- social value of investment in employability and skills programmes in the Edinburgh and South East City Region
- the value of access to money advice in schools and GP practices in Dundee
Process and/or impact evaluations
- Welfare Advice and Health Partnerships Test and Learn Programme
General evaluation support and guidance
Helping you at any stage in your evaluation journey:
- planning evaluations
- stakeholder mapping and engagement
- customer journey mapping
- developing logic models
- developing frameworks
- identifying appropriate data collection methods
- analysing and interpreting data
- acting as a critical friend and participating in reference groups
- communicating evaluation findings
Webinars – new series coming soon
The first in this series will be Measuring the Value of Welfare Rights Advice in Dundee... was it worth it? on 3 November 2026.
Follow our Eventbrite page for notifications of upcoming events, to also include:
- Place based investment
- Softer outcomes - employability
- Qualitative vs quantitative data
- Communicating findings - how to spread the word
- Measuring social value
In our last series of webinars, we were joined by colleagues from other teams in the Improvement Service, particularly the Research team, to talk about:
- Measuring social value in Scottish local authorities
- Evaluating the impact of partnership working
- How useful is qualitative data?
- Communicating findings: from insight to impact
- Integrating genAI tools into evaluation
- Measuring impact