The Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme considered the decision-making processes that impact on a place and worked with our stakeholders to identify opportunities for different ways of working.
We took a whole systems approach to working in our seven Project Towns and considered the current and future ambitions within a place, mapped opportunities to bring Outcomes and data into decisions and developed the tool of a Place and Wellbeing Assessment.
A Place and Wellbeing Assessment enables you to use the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes in a way that enhances consideration of place when making decisions and the importance of using relevant data to understand what is happening to people. We developed a How-To Guide to support people to follow the process. Read more about it on the web page.
Local Project Action
We supported our Project Towns to embed the Outcomes and data about inequality into their plan, strategies and proposals that impacted on the place. This was primarily through Place and Wellbeing Assessments, and you can read all the reports from these here.
We captured and shared our learning through the How to Guides as well as blogs, impact stories and reports. These are some examples:
Based on our experience delivering local project action that supports place-based decision making, we believe people having certain experiences, behaviours, attitudes, values and motivations when engaged in Place and Wellbeing Assessments and subsequent recommendation embedment helps to enable system change. We referred to these as the “mechanisms of change” and are captured in this document.
If the Shaping Places for Wellbeing place-based approach sounds like something you would like to know more about, please contact Irene Beautyman, Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead, below. Alternatively, follow us on LinkedIn - Planning and Place-Based Approaches, to keep up to date with the Planning and Place-Based Programmes from within the Improvement Service, and X @place4wellbeing to recap on the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme’s journey.
Irene Beautyman - Place and Wellbeing Partnership Lead
Phone: 07908 930763
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Planning for Place Programme
The Planning for Place Programme supports councils and their partners to collaborate around place, seeking to encourage place-based approaches to joint planning, resourcing and delivery of places that enable all communities to flourish.
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National Planning Improvement Programme
The National Planning Improvement Champion is responsible for monitoring the performance of planning authorities and providing advice to them (and others) on what steps might be taken to improve their performance.
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Planning Skills
The Planning Skills Programme co-ordinates training events for public sector planning officers, with the aim to develop the skills required to deliver better places.
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Digital Planning
The Digital Planning team at the Improvement Service collaborates with local government to enhance and unify data related to planning and building standards. This work aims to develop a cohesive national data landscape, fostering insights and supporting informed decision-making.
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Shaping Places for Wellbeing Place-based Approach
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.