Wednesday 30 November, 10 am – 3 pm, at Learning Academy, Glasgow City Chambers

Come along to Laria Listens if you want to share practice and network with others involved in local area research in Scotland.

Book your place via the eventbrite link

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laria-in-scotland-laria-listens-tickets-27520717206?aff=es2

This time around we will be focusing on

Changing services

• Using Research to transform services
• Changing behaviours around money advice

Improving Places

• Place-based approaches and
• how they are being applied in Fife and West Dunbartonshire (both of whom are case study areas in What Works Scotland Collaborative Action Research Workstream)

Please contact Erin Murray ermurray@scotborders.gov.uk or  Coryn Barclay coryn.barclay@fife.gov.uk to tell us about any wicked or burning issues you have with local research, analysis and use of evidence, that you would like to see discussed through Laria Listens

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• learn what is and what isn’t working in their local area
• encourage collaborative learning with a range of local authority, business, public sector and community partners
• better understand what effective policy interventions and effective services look like
• promote the use of evidence in planning and service delivery
• help organisations get the skills and knowledge they need to use and interpret evidence
• create case studies for wider sharing and sustainability

In addition other local and national partnerships will be developed within the case study areas and as priority topics are identified.

The Workplan 2014-2017 document outlines how WWS will achieve its aim of improving the way agencies in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development, delivery and reform.

Laria in Scotland will be working directly with What Works Scotland on the Evidence into Action workstream: supporting the use of evidence in planning, delivering and developing public services during the life of the project, and developing a sustainable evidence ‘ecosystem’ beyond it.

This will involve creating methods to ensure evidence from published research local and national data and information, the voices of local communities and other sources, can be effectively used in planning and developing public services, and delivering evidence to support What Works Scotland collaborative action research projects.  An Evidence Bank, and a Knowledge Broker Network will also be developed.

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