Generic Social Outcomes

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Overview

The Generic Social Outcomes help you measure and provide evidence of the wider benefits of museums, libraries and archives.

Setting outcomes is at the heart of service planning and improvement.

The GSOs support service improvement by helping you to

  • Plan projects, set objectives and assess delivery against them 
  • Develop best practice 
  • Fit with the focus on shared outcomes for local people measured by  comprehensive area assessments  
  • Develop reflective practitioners 
  • Encourage partnership working through shared priorities 

What are the GSOs

The generic social outcomes help museums, libraries and archives to describe the wider impact of their work in communities. There are three outcome areas that relate to government policy priorities

  • Stronger and safer communities
  • Health and well-being
  • Strengthening public life

To identify social outcomes

1. look at your organisation's high level aims, for example in

  • Corporate aims
  • Vision or mission statement
  • Statement of values or principles

2. Identify which audiences are priorities to target

3. Consider how your project/ service contribute to one or more of the GSOs

4. Decide what evidence you need to gather  

Working through GSO resources and materials

Why consider using the GSOs? 
   1 - Importance of GSOs
   2 - Policy Context

 How do I find out more about the GSOs?
    3 - What GSOs mean
    4 - Planning with GSOs

What do I use the GSOs  for?
    Planning for Impact 5 - Evidence Gathering
    Evaluating  Impact  6 - Capturing Impact
    Getting the message across  7 - Making the Case

Also see, 8 - Additional resources.

Click on each of the circles to reveal a more detailed description of each outcome

Stringer and safer communities Strengthening public life Health and well-being

Stronger & Safer Communities

  • Improving group and inter-group dialogue and understanding
  • Supporting cultural diversity and identity
  • Encouraging familial ties and relationships
  • Tackling the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour
  • Contributing to crime prevention and reduction
 

Strengthening Public Life

  • Encouraging and supporting awareness and participation in local decision-making and wider civic and political engagement
  • Building the capacity of community and voluntary groups
  • Providing safe, inclusive and trusted public spaces
  • Enabling community empowerment through the awareness of rights, benefits and external services
  • Improving the responsiveness of services to the needs of the local community, including other stakeholders
 

Health & Well Being

  • Encouraging healthy lifestyles and contributing to mental and physical well being
  • Supporting care and recovery
  • Supporting older people to live independent lives
  • Helping children and young people to enjoy life and make a positive contribution
 

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