A crucial part of the Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme involved evaluating our approach and sharing our learning from the Local Project Action in our seven Project Towns. This has enabled replication of the approach, supporting system changes across Scotland.
To enable people to replicate our approach within their own place-based work, we have developed a set of three How-To Guides which share our learning from key elements of the Programme.
A Data-Informed Approach
These guides support understanding inequalities in a place and how people are experiencing them.
A How-To Guide to Capturing and Analysing Local Qualitative Data and Community Insight
This guide focuses on our process for capturing local qualitative data and community insight, through desk-based research and engagement with local practitioners and representatives of local groups and organisations.
A How-To Guide to Capturing and Analysing Local Quantitative Data
This guide focuses on our process for capturing local quantitative data, through data collection, analysis and sharing.
Place and Wellbeing Assessment: A How-To Guide
This guide aims to equip you with the knowledge and confidence to conduct your own Place and Wellbeing Assessment, supporting the reader to take a place-based approach in local decision-making processes, and to use the Place and Wellbeing Outcomes and relevant data to enhance consideration of place.
These guides support a place-based approach as shown in the diagram below:
We also shared our learning through our blogs series, impact stories and workstream evaluation reports.
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.