On April 30th, Children’s Neighbourhood Scotland (CNS) hosted an exciting seminar on Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People: Using Research and Evidence to Make Change Happen at St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow. The seminar aimed to create a space where practice and learning could be shared, alongside the challenges… Continue reading Sharing learning and practice from across the UK to improve outcomes for children and young people
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Children’s Neighbourhoods Walkabouts
Local children in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock told us overwhelmingly about the importance of playing, and safe play places. Through conversation and art activities in schools, children and young people told us about their dissatisfaction and unhappiness with the places available for them to play. We're committed to ensuring the voices of children and families inform… Continue reading Children’s Neighbourhoods Walkabouts
Improving outcomes for children and young people: using research and evidence to make change happen
Get the presentations from this CNScotland seminar which examined the potential offered by working collaboratively to reduce childhood poverty at a neighbourhood level.
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland: Procurement framework for the delivery of CNS Local Co-ordinators
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland is seeking dynamic organisations or partnerships of organisations, to deliver the local implementation of CNS in a number of neighbourhoods across Scotland.
Children’s Neighbourhoods for Scotland: Putting poverty in its place!
How Children’s Neighbourhoods is now working with a range of players, locally, regionally and nationally, to generate a coherent response in services to ensure that all resources are pulling in the same direction.
Launching Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland: together we can do more
The CNS launch event brought together over 50 people from a range of local and national organisations, across services and sectors, to hear about the background and work of CNS and what we have being doing in the run-up to the launch.
Using the Capabilities Approach
How and why Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) proposes to use a Capabilities Approach in our research.
Making child’s play, serious business
Asking local children what is most important to them is crucial to Children's Neighbourhoods Scotland. Many of our local children would tell you that is playing is important!
What kind of place is a neighbourhood?
Most people use “place” and “space” to mean the same thing but for some researchers there is an important difference between these two words. Find out more.
The role of the backbone organisation in collective impact approaches
Starting out in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock we have been learning from other children's neighbourhood approaches, where there is a lot of emphasis on the role of the 'backbone organisation'. What does this mean?