1. Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership
What Works Scotland/
Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership
Learning Report
Nick Bland & James Henderson
CPP Board Meeting
28 September 2016

2. What are we learning in Aberdeenshire?
How do we work better together?
Partnership and collaboration
How do we support community action and coproduction?
Building community capacity
How do we build a shared understanding of what works?
Collaborative learning and action

3. How do we work better together? Partnership and collaboration
Operational partnership: what does it mean to put Christie into action?
Strategic partnership: what structures and processes will support us to meet our ambitions, and the requirements of the CEA?

4. How do we support community action and coproduction
How do we support community action and coproduction? Building community capacity
Models and approaches: community link working
What works to build community capacity
Local solutions to local problems: trialling a mini-public in a local neighbourhood

5. How do we build a shared understanding of ‘what works’
How do we build a shared understanding of ‘what works’? Collaborative learning and action
Exploring tools and approaches that offer opportunities for ‘disruptive’, innovative thinking; exploring new ways of working; building and ‘doing’ collaboration
Collaborative action research
Action learning and improvement
Collaborative learning and reflection

6. What are we learning about ‘what works’ across Scotland?
Drawing out common and divergent experience, approaches across WWS case sites
Community-led action planning; developing community profiles for place-based approaches
Building learning about effective participatory budgeting
School-based partnership working
Building a national and international picture
Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
What works in community engagement
Public leadership in action
Spreading ‘what works’ in public service reform

7. Completing our joint work
2016- early 2017
Participatory Discussion groups; 3rd learning day
Preventative partnership working
Community capacity building
Collaborative learning and action practice
2017
Drawing together our collective learning in A’shire
Sharing our learning nationally