Outcome Based Policy Making

Developing effective policies which achieve real change on the ground is a challenge facing everyone who is involved in delivering public services today. Limited funding, competing priorities and tough problems that our predecessors have failed to crack are just some of the hurdles.  This one day course gives delegates insights into how to be a good policy maker and offers ideas of the tools and techniques that they can use in their own workplace.

•     Recent developments in policy making in Scotland
•     Identifying short medium and long term outcomes
•     The policy process good practice
•     Use of evidence
•     Stakeholder engagement
•     Innovative thinking
•     Option appraisal
•     Case studies