Publications
You can search here for reports and other publications from Outside the Box. You will also find the posters we have published here. All publications are listed below, or you can browse the A-Z or use the search function on the left.
We have also included publications from other organisations on topics which relate to the projects we are supporting.
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Title: Working Toward Policy Context
Date: 01/08/2009
Summary:
The Working Towards project is supporting the development of new user-led services.
This is what we mean by ‘user-led services’.
• There are practical services that deliver care, advice, information, training, or some other practical activity. The services bring benefits to individual people.
• The services are led by the people who will be using those services, or by people who share very similar circumstances to the target service user group (or members, or consumers, or clients, or other term that the people in that situation prefer to use).
• Leadership comes from the people who will be using the services around the values and direction of the service, and around the practical day-to-day service delivery. Sometimes, this will mean that everyone leading the service – for example, on the board of a voluntary organisation – will be someone with experience of using the services that the organisation delivers. In other examples other people will also be involved but there will be a majority of people with relevant lived experience.
This approach to services brings together several current strands of policy and good practice which are themselves inter-linked.
• User-led services have the potential to contribute to the achievement of each of these principles and aims.
• These policies can be used as part of showing why developing a new user-led service is a good answer to a particular problem or gap in what is available now.
• The good practice that is emerging round each of these policies will strengthen and support the development and delivery of user-led services, as well as strengthening more traditional forms of service delivery.
This note lists the main policy initiatives affecting people in Scotland. It also has references to policy and good practice sources for people who want further information. We have listed some resources under several headings to make it easier for people using the note as a reference source: this reflects the ways in which these issues are interconnected. -
Title: Working Towards 6 Month Report
Date: 01/08/2009
Summary:
This is the first 6 month report to the Big Lottery, which part-funds the project.
The project is funded as part of the Big Lottery’s Investing in Communities programme, under the Supporting Twenty First Century Life strand.
The Board of Outside the Box decided to publish the progress report.
• We hope it will show people across Scotland the types of work that groups led by the people who will use services want to undertake.
• We hope it will encourage people to think about the potential value of this sort of approach in complementing other types of services.
• The report shows some of the early impacts which we are achieving with the support of the Big Lottery programme.
We are grateful to the Big Lottery for funding the project and to agreeing that we can publish this first report. -
Title: Working Towards Report - Ideas For Services That Are Led By The People That Use Them
Date: 30/09/2009
Summary:
This report brings together the ideas that people raised.
There are suggestions for possible new projects – services that
are not there at present, and which people thought would benefit
them and/or other people in their community. Many of these new
services would also be useful in other parts of Scotland.
People also described the benefits which new user-led services
such as these would bring, and these are listed in the report. The
participants described 2 types of benefits.
• One benefit is the outcomes of that type of service: the
benefits to the people who would receive the service or
take part in both providing and receiving the support.
• The second benefit is learning about the process of
providing services that are led by the people who use
them.
People then told us what supports or other actions would help
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Title: Working Towards User-Led Services - 1st Year Report
Date: 01/11/2009
Summary:
This report describes what happened in the first year of the Working Towards project.
We hope it will give people across Scotland ideas about how you can use the Working Towards project to help you develop user-led services in your area. -
Title: Your Say Issue 10
Summary:
The newsletter from Dundee's Advocating Together groupDownload: Your Say Issue 10 (PDF/1788KB) >>>
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Title: Ythan Health and Wellbeing Group
Date: 14/04/2009
Summary:
Are you someone with a long-term health problem, or a relative or friend of someone?
The Ythan Health and Wellbeing Group brings together people who live with long-term physical health problems, relatives and other people who want to see better opportunities and services.
We are gathering the views.
How to have your sayDownload: Have your say (PDF/54KB) >>>
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