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


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Understanding the Place approach


Process 7 Partnering to deliver future Place


How do we work together to create the future Place?


Place Framework: Place Narrative & Place Actions


What is this for?


This step defines who will support the creation of the future Place (users, organisations and partners), giving detailed answers to: “Who will be involved to deliver our future Place?” and “What do we need to change about current partnerships to achieve our future Place?”


This therefore is about creating a Programme that harnesses all different activities and partners. The Programme is the platform for project creation and delivery; so in addition to the who, and what, we articulate the ‘how’; a programme approach.


Part of the ongoing work of the Programme should be about prioritisation, and assurance against the Place Brief and success criteria. For example, as per the Investment Framework, ensuring again that there are answers to:


1. What are our agreed shared principles? The core criteria for what we do and how we work together.


2. How will we provide assurance? A governance and operational framework that partners, stakeholders and funders can endorse.


3. What are our priorities for change? A clear statement of what is most important, why that is, and how choices will be made.


4. How will we gain approvals? Respecting and ensuring that the requirements of partners are being met, individually and collectively


5. How do we assess our impact? Learning from the changes we deliver and their impact on the ground.


Planning for delivery should build on early arrangements – using existing partnership forums if appropriate (e.g. leveraging City Region Deals, REPs, CPPs, HSCPs) and at locality levels too (via Area Partnerships). This should align with the Authorising Environment referenced in step 3. It should also include building agreed actions into


individual organisations’ commitments and programmes.


As the future Place ideas are refined (perhaps because a new delivery partner has been identified) a new partnership may need established. This should be highlighted to appropriate decision-makers early for discussion and action. The formality or informality of the arrangement would be relevant (i.e. legal agreement with practical implications for commissioning/contracts).


The expectation is that partners will work together to share resources/expertise on delivery against defined outcomes/outputs and a timetable and that diverse community voices continue to play a role.


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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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