Community engagement examples

Health and Social Care Integration consultation

Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) organised a series of events to raise awareness of Health and Social Care Integration draft priorities for Glasgow. To make sure that a variety of people with disabilities attended, GDA used a number of different ways to contact people, including newsletters, individual letters, email, social media and flyers and posters distributed through local partners. As a result of this marketing effort, 137 participants attended the event, representing a wide range of ages and disabilities. The discussions from this event have gone on to shape the Health and Social Care Integration priorities for Glasgow.

 

Participatory Budgeting in Nairn

The Highland Council started this process, which is a way for local people to have a direct say in how, and where, public funds are spent. Some key features of how people worked together on the project steering group included:

  • recognising and acknowledging different views and starting points;

  • representing a wide cross-section of interests in the town to make sure there was a high level of engagement with the process among the wider community; and

  • steering group members taking on responsibility and being listened to within the process.

This was evaluated as a positive and successful process which met its various objectives. The people who took part reported that they enjoyed it and considered it a positive experience.

There’s more examples in the National Standards for Community Engagement.