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We offer a full consultancy service to clients in local authorities, voluntary organisations, health boards, partnerships and national agencies and growing businesses.

Our programmes are enjoyed by work teams keen to enhance their performance and individuals opting for personal development time.

Coaching and mentoring is offered to individuals by personal or organisational referral.

A snapshot of clients, restricted to organisations to protect the confidentiality of individual clients, includes:

SAMH

SAMH, Scotland’s leading mental health charity, took the decision to implement a recovery approach throughout the organisation. devlinbeattie partnership worked with SAMH’s Recovery Team to monitor and evaluate how successful this was, including the barriers faced by services throughout the country in implementing this new approach. The review took place over 9 months of the implementation phase, measuring progress made, making proposals for ongoing change and drawing conclusions to help ensure the approach would continue to be reflected throughout SAMH.


Scottish Executive (now Scottish Government)

devlinbeattie partnership facilitated a series of local seminars and workshops on the national infant feeding strategy, a key development in improving the life chances of Scotland’s children.


Stirling Council

Stirling Council (Community Services) recognised that its arrangements for funding voluntary organisations did not reflect best practice as outlined in The McLelland Report or Audit Scotland’s Following the Public Pound findings. It commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to review arrangements and make recommendations for the future. As a result, the Council is implementing contractual arrangements with organisations it funds, where both parties are clear about reporting, accountability and expectations about added value.


NHS Lanarkshire

As part of its modernisation programme and commitment to improving services to patients, NHS Lanarkshire commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to detail the patient experience in ‘Patient Narratives’ in cardio-thoracic, orthopaedics, general surgery, dermatology, emergency medical, eye care, oncology, respiratory and rheumatology services. The narratives contributed to a series of training workshops for senior clinical staff working in the acute sector.


Communities Scotland

devlinbeattie partnership carried out the evaluation of Girvan Social Inclusion Partnership for Communities Scotland as part of the national evaluation of Social Inclusion Partnerships. The evaluation included an assessment of impact on target communities, influence on mainstream spend and service planning and delivery and detailed spend as well as added value evidenced by the Partnership.


ZetTrans

ZetTrans, Shetland’s transport partnership, commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to facilitate a series of local transport forums to identify the priorities of transport providers and users throughout the Shetland mainland. The forums focussed on cost effective improvements to existing services as well as coming up with proposals for change that would contribute to Shetland’s economic and social sustainability.


Liber8 Lanarkshire Ltd

Liber8 is the local council on alcohol for South Lanarkshire. Having expanded rapidly in the last 3 years, it wanted to agree a business plan that would secure the organisation into the future. devlinbeattie partnership engaged with all Liber8’s stakeholders, including service users, to identify key developments in governance, structure, staffing, business development and financial planning.


Children 1st

Children 1st (the campaigning name of the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children), is recognised as a leader in abuse and trauma recovery work but lacked a set of standards against which all abuse and recovery practice could be measured. devlinbeattie partnership worked with local Children 1st services and past service users to establish best practice standards which were readily adopted nationally.


South Lanarkshire Regeneration Partnership

During the 3 years of Community Regeneration Funding (CRF) South Lanarkshire regeneration partnership invested £2 million in youth diversionary activity. The partnership commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to evaluate the impact of the investment and make recommendations for future diversionary activity.


The Electoral Commission with LANDED

LANDED, the peer education service for Lanarkshire, piloted a programme aimed at increasing young people’s engagement with democracy, for The Electoral Commission in the lead up to the Scottish Parliamentary Election 2007. devlinbeattie partnership evaluated the approach including lessons learned to inform a national roll out.


Scottish Natural Heritage

In 2007, Scottish Natural Heritage established its new set of working themes and priorities and wanted to involve staff throughout the country in exploring the implications for local programmes and practice. devlinbeattie partnership helped design and deliver a series of national staff conferences including training local staff to facilitate small groups using interactive techniques.


Glasgow Healthy City Partnership

To prepare for the introduction of Community Health and Care Partnerships (CHCPs), Glasgow Healthy City Partnership commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to review the city’s 7 community health projects and make recommendations for future delivery of community health work in the CHCPs. The review involved full organisational reviews of all local community health activity including governance, structure, value for money and sustainability.


South Ayrshire Council with Ayr College

Having piloted a jointly funded and managed community learning centre in Girvan, South Ayrshire Council and Ayr College commissioned devlinbeattie partnership to evaluate the pilot and make recommendations about how best to maintain and take forward its impact. A wide range of students, including those with additional needs, were involved in the evaluation. Methods and techniques to ensure the evaluation was inclusive, were used throughout.


Perth and Kinross Council

Perth and Kinross Council wanted to provide staff with online resources to support improvement in community engagement. devlinbeattie partnership was commissioned to prepare an online toolkit covering: the context and purpose of community engagement, engaging with hard to reach groups, approaches and techniques, resources to support engagement, good practice case studies. devlinbeattie partnership delivered a series of follow up practice workshops to offer hands on experience of approaches and techniques.