DOCUMENTS and PUBLICATIONS

written or contributed to by Peter Taylor

(Community Development and Public Participation)

(Health in the Community)

(Regeneration and social inclusion)

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Community Development and public participation

What Community Development Does: a short guide for decision makers to how it achieves results CDAS

Building Community Capacity: Resources for Community Learning & Development Practice - A Guide (with SCDC) Scottish Government HTML PDF

Building the Agenda for Change (Background paper on issues facing community development in Scotland) Community Development Alliance Scotland

Community Learning and Development Workforce Survey  Learning Connections, Communities Scotland  (with Avanté Consulting)

Better Community Engagement:  a Framework for Learning Communities Scotland (with A Barr et al)

Who are the Capacity Builders? Configurations of Community Capacity Building in Six Neighbourhoods Community Development Foundation Report  Full Summary  Brief Summary Edited version with Introduction by G Chanan

Illuminating Practice: case studies in community learning and development Communities Scotland

Involving Communities: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (prepared for the Scottish Community Development's Working Together: Learning Together training programme for partnerships)

(PDF files): Introduction and Contents ... Capacity ... Inclusion ... Resources .... Listening and Learning ... Effective Participation

(the whole document is available as a DOC file here, on the SCDC site (caution: large download)

Priorities for Active Communities - report of a consultation for the Volunteer Centre, Glasgow (DOC file) (also available from the Volunteer Centre as a PDF)

Voluntary and Community Groups in North Lanarkshire (research summary)

Health in the community

Case Studies of the Application of Economic Evidence of Health Improvement Work in Community-led Projects   and Organisations

Healthy Living Centres in Scotland Lessons for the future

Community Health Exchange (CHEX): A Strategic Review

Working together to effectively implement the Health and Homelessness Standards- Report of a Learning and Support Seminar   Health Scotland

  Fair for All Equality and Diversity: Handbook for NHS Scotland. Health Topic Briefings and Personal Stories NHS Scotland (with Avanté Consulting: responsible for Topic Briefings)

Work done for Scottish Task Group on Community-led health improvement:

Final Report  'Healthy Communities: a shared challenge' ( Summary )

'Changing Lives: the impact of community-based activities on health improvement'  - Case Studies

Briefing on applying the National Standards for Community Engagement to developing health and community care policies and services

  Food access in communities - an assessment of current activities Full report (in Inverclyde, Argyll and Bute)

Report of the Building Strong Foundations Regional Conferences - based upon events aimed at ‘Building Strong Foundations’ for 'Patient Focus and Public Involvement' in NHS Scotland, but providing case studies, additional information on the policy background and ideas from elsewhere. Available from Scottish Human Service Trust

Understanding the Policy Maze - a guide to Social and Health Policy in Scotland (3rd edition)

"Widely recognised for providing a comprehensive and systematic explanation and overview of key policies which impact on the implementation of health and social services" NHS Health Scotland.   Details of print version

 

Perspective papers on professions and regeneration (Scottish Centre for Regeneration, Communities Scotland) :

        Schools and community regeneration

      Community Learning & Development and community regeneration

       Economic Development and community regeneration

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheets:  community regeneration; community planning; social economy; financial inclusion (Scottish Centre for Regeneration, Communities Scotland)

Surveyors in Regeneration (Communities Scotland Research Report 61; with D Adams et al) ...Report..... Précis

Community Regeneration Skills and Competencies: Needs Analysis and Framework (Communities Scotland Research Report 42; with I Turok et al) ...Report..... Précis

Here is a summary of the skills framework

Arts in the City 2002/03 - Evaluation - report to 'the big step' Social Inclusion Partnership

Coherent Diversity: inter-disciplinary training for community regeneration and social inclusion in Scotland (Kirkpatrick D & Taylor P) Communities Scotland Précis

Community learning and development training for professionals engaged in community regeneration and community planning (2005) Learning Connections, Communities Scotland (A Barr, D Kirkpatrick, M Lindsay and Peter Taylor)

'Not Just a Treat': Arts and Social Inclusion (Report to Scottish Arts Council) (with C Hamilton & R Goodlad)

Paper presented to UK Evaluation Society 'Not Just a treat': Issues in evaluating arts programmes to secure social inclusion (Goodlad R, Taylor P, & Hamilton C) (2002)

Social Inclusion Partnerships in Scotland (list) (factsheet)

Tackling Social Exclusion in Partnership? (discussion paper)

A summary of urban regeneration policy in Scotland (especially 1990s)

An Examination of Unsuccessful Priority Partnership Area Bids - summary Scottish Executive Development Department Research Programme Research Findings No 67 (1999) (also available online)

'Competitive bidding in urban regeneration: stimulus or disillusionment for the losers?' (Taylor, Turok & Hastings) Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2001) Abstract (and link to full text for registered networks)

Poverty Related Policy Making in Scotland -summary of report (DOC file)