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


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Understanding the Place approach


Process 3 Determining Place What is this for? resources & governance


How should decisions be made about the Place, and who does the work?


Place Framework: Place Oversight


This step should create the conditions for a well- managed and effective Place-based approach via:


• Leadership: collective commitment from stakeholders to engage and follow through


• Participation: ensuring that diverse voices are heard to capture authentic stories of a Place and influence outcomes


• Collaboration: build anchor collaborations to drive.


To be effective, it will need: an Authorising Environment with the trust of partners to make decisions; a clear Stakeholder Engagement process which offers meaningful opportunities to influence decisions; and some Assurance function that what is being carried out is done correctly and with the right outcomes.


Colleagues should determine early how decisions are made about the Place, including community voices e.g. via strong CPP Area Partnerships as decision-making forums – and how communities are resourced to do Place work, including being lead agents in creating or developing further the Place Brief.


It would be useful to agree the overall leadership commitment and ownership of approach in those forums, with clearly communicated agreements to collaborative working and the resources to support delivery.


A pragmatic approach to resourcing should be taken: recognising that partners may already be working on elements of the agenda – building on or consolidating on that may be the easiest way to progress. This is a key stage to promote the ‘pause, reflect, consider alignment’ opportunity.


To be clear: a key element of the work is in building ownership of the Place initiatives with local politicians, who will reference the work at local authority council meetings, area meetings etc, and review progress later. Colleagues should aim to get information to relevant agendas early.


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Confirming Place


purpose 3


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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