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Recent evaluations and support
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)
- SROI analysis of Intensive Family Support Services in the Edinburgh and South East City Region – reports coming soon
- completion of two SROIs for Dundee City Council - see the news story from June 2026 on the value of access to advice in schools and GP practices and join the webinar in October to hear more
Process and/or impact evaluations
- evaluated the 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 in autumn 2026
Follow our Eventbrite page for notifications of new events.
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