Do you know how supporting victims of crime is helping Scotland?
This document provides an overview of statistics and information to help illustrate the link between crime and the fulfilment of Scotland?s main targets. It shows how Victim Support Scotland can directly assist in delivering services in line with the national outcomes, indicators… Read more
Statutory Requirements for Research in Central and Local Government
This report examines the statutory and non-statutory drivers for research in central and local government in Scotland and considers the impact of demands on current capacity. Based on focus groups and interviews with researchers in three local authorities and with analysts in the… Read more
Child poverty in Scotland: taking the next steps
This 'viewpoint paper' is informed by evidence from a series of reports by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on different aspects of child poverty in the UK, and by independent analyses of evidence, new policy and proposed policy from the UK and Scottish Governments. It summarises a… Read more
Service Commissioning and Procurement Survey (2009)
The Service Commissioning and Procurement Survey was designed to find out more about the views, attitudes and experiences of procurement and commissioning staff working in local authorities, particularly in relation to 'the enterprising third sector' (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/T… Read more
Differential Social Impacts of Climate Change in the UK
To inform UK climate change adaptation responses, the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) commisioned CAG Consultants to identify how climate change affects different people within the UK and to identify the adaptation measures that will need… Read more
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2010
This report is the latest in the Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland series which has been published every two years since 2002. It is shaped as a response to key developments since the last report was published in 2008. The ?rst of these is the recession, most of… Read more
The Department for Work and Pensions Social Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework
This working paper provides a series of recommendations for the integration of social impacts into the DWP Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) framework for employment programmes. This will ensure that the wider impacts on society are considered when evaluating the effectiveness of polic… Read more
Supporting community and social enterprise in deprived communities: a Good Practice Guide for Practitioners
In Spring 2010, ippr north carried out new research exploring the critical success factors for community and social enterprise in deprived communities in the North West of England. The final report entitled Growing the Big Society (Cox and Schmuecker, 2010) identified a series of… Read more
Weathering the Storm - Full Report
A perfect storm is brewing. Fiscal austerity, demographic change and other pressures will mean that business as usual for our public services will no longer be enough. Innovative responses will be required. In Wales the pressures facing the rest of the UK are likely to be a more… Read more
Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland: Analysis of Focus Group Consultation Findings
This report presents the findings of a series of focus group discussions which were carried out as part of a Scottish Government consultation on ?Tackling Child Poverty in Scotland?. The consultation ran from November 2010 to January 2011, and the focus group strand explored stak… Read more