Since late 2018, we've been supporting Possibilities for Each and Every Kid (PEEK), by capturing the learning from the great work they do with children and young people. Here's a look at a recent community project based in Glasgow's East End, which allowed young people to express themselves through engaging with theatre...
Category: Bridgeton and Dalmarnock
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.
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!
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?
Theory of Change Workshop with the International Futures Forum
This workshop of local partners in Bridgeton and Dalmarnock improved and developed the CNS Theory of Change.
Working towards a vision of collective impact
How Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland's approach and ways of working are underpinned by the idea of ‘collective impact’.
Gathering the context and developing a Theory of Change
When reviewing literature from other Children’s Communities we noticed that many of them used a Theory of Change, taking into account local recent context, available assets, and key outcomes for communities. This form of planning is often used successfully to promote social change in complex settings.