Throughout the lifetime of the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme, we frequently created blogs detailing our Programme’s journey, and as part of our evaluation of the Programme, we regularly shared our learning across the different stages through our blog series ‘Shaping our thinking, Sharing our learning’. All blogs can be accessed below.
Moving on with the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Approach: Final Reflections from Irene Beautyman, Programme Lead
Irene Beautyman, Programme Lead for the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme, outlines the future ambitions for the Programme and reflects on the resources available to anyone looking to take a Shaping Places for Wellbeing place-based approach.
Exploring the role and influence of the Third Sector on the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme
in this blog, Mary Sinclair examines the role of the Third Sector in supporting the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme.
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.
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.
Why should planners use the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes?
In this blog, Eilidh Mackintosh, former Project Officer on the Planning for Place Programme, explains how the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes can help planners avoid negative unintended consequences of their decisions.
Shaping Places for Wellbeing in Fraserburgh
From the initial ‘Switch on’ of Fraserburgh as a Shaping Places for Wellbeing Project Town in October 2022, there were key variations that could be identified in comparison to the other six Project Towns. This set the scene for Fraserburgh to take a slightly different route to the other Project Towns in the programme.
In this blog, the Project Lead for Fraserburgh, Laura Stewart, reflects on how these differences have influenced the work in Fraserburgh and the impact.
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.