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Published Work
Leading the Way
Avanté has supported Voluntary and public sector organisations in West Lothian keen to support a more coherent infrastructure for the third sector. This reflects debate being encouraged by the Scottish Government, focussing on how to improve the interface between the work of Community Planning Partnerships (CPP) focussed on delivery of the government’s Single Outcome Agreement and the third sector. The work of Councils for Voluntary Service (CsVS) and Volunteer Centres (VCs) has been centre stage in such discussions.
The report from this first phase of work sets out the findings of a consultative process that took place and identifies the key milestones in the journey that brought West Lothian to consider future arrangements. It also identifies three options for the future and sets out the detail of stakeholders’ favoured option, which recommends the formation of a new voluntary sector infrastructure support agency in West Lothian that builds on the best of what has gone before in a CVS and VC.
Download the full report (PDF).
Research on Identifying and Quantifying CLD Outcomes
Learning Connections, part of the Scottish Government’s Lifelong Learning Division, has recently published research undertaken by Avanté on identifying and quantifying CLD outcomes.
Identifying and Quantifying the Outcomes of CLD: the Development and Testing of a Research Instrument
Avanté Consulting was commissioned to develop and pilot an instrument that could test whether it is possible to identify and quantify retrospectively the outcomes of CLD for individuals and communities in Scotland. The research found that there was a positive distance travelled toward the defined outcomes by the respondents.
This means that CLD is supporting people to become more confident individuals, more effective contributors, responsible citizens and successful learners. Equally, across a range of indicators, those involved in community capacity building provide evidence of improvement in how their groups function and the impact that this has on communities. The data indicates that across a range of indicators CLD did make a difference.
Read the summary and full report published by the Scottish Government.
