PLACE GUIDE: A PROCESS FOR IMPROVED PLACE-BASED DECISION MAKING SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST


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Understanding the Place approach


Process 1 Understanding What is this for? the Place approach


Why should we use a Place-Based approach here?


Place Framework: Place Narrative


At the very outset, this step is a prompt to to consider the question: “Why should we use a Place-based approach to address this issue?”.


The answer will likely be based on complexity, where many issues influencing outcomes are connected. The most efficient way is to look at things together, a whole systems model made manageable using a geography that people find meaningful, where responses come via the 4 pillars identified by the Christie Commission (people, partnership, prevention and performance), and building on COVID collaborations to support recovery. Additionally, financial challenges means there is less money, and more reason to collaborate.


Choosing a Place approach means that some people are already aware of this complexity, and there is some collective leadership emerging. In other words, there is some early sense of ‘what kind of place is this’ across a series of stakeholders who see benefit in collaborative approaches.


As such, a Place-based approach should stimulate early thinking on priorities, ownership, governance, collaboration and assurance – and help with early messaging across internal and external partners.


Place-based approaches are not easily replicable:


• every Place is unique, and a prescriptive one size fits all approach will not be successful


• every Place is already subject to multiple national, regional and local plans, aspirations and needs


• requires multi-agency engagement


A Place-based approach recognises that no one starts from a blank page – colleagues and partners can build on and repurpose existing activity and use that to galvanise collective leadership locally.


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Confirming Place


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Determining Place resources & governance


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Defining current Place


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Programming activities for future Place


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Partnering to deliver future Place


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Progressing ideas for future Place


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Describing future Place


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