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2. Understanding potential impact

Some simple exercises to explore a policy area, action plan, strategy or service from the perspective of the wellbeing of those who will be affected by it.

These can be conducted in a workshop or as a short desk-research exercise. They can help to explore, appraise and enhance the social impact of policy options. 

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Contribution analysis

Map your activities against the wellbeing domains in the Office for National Statistics National Wellbeing Framework.  You will look at the areas where you are primarily focused and where you help others both now and for the future including risk management or resilience.

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Stakeholder analysis

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Perspectives analysis

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Time use analysis

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Alternative domains analysis

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Impacts on the wellbeing drivers of a place

We have mapped the known drivers of wellbeing as they apply to a place.  There is data available for each of the drivers for every UK local authority.  For Scotland and Wales? You can find local area profiles for England through the Public Health England Fingertips database and here for Scotland and here for Wales These profiles are a rich source of indicators across a range of health and wellbeing themes that has been designed to support JSNA and commissioning to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce inequalities. With these profiles you can:

  • Browse indicators at different geographical levels
  • Benchmark against the regional or England average

You can input your responses directly into this table, and download to your computer. You can also download and complete offline.

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Known drivers of wellbeing

Life course analysis

A common framework used by local authorities, public health and health sectors.  This is a model for looking at potential immediate impacts e.g. of flooding or a new policy or programme.  It could be repeated to look at 3-5 or 10 years ahead.

  1. Start with identifying in general what is going on that could impact this theme
  2. Then identify what ideas of what could be done for each theme

You can input your responses directly into this table, and download to your computer. You can also download and complete offline.

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