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Policy tools

About Policy tools

Wellbeing policy tools for decision-makers

Policy tools to help you think through how to improve the outcomes that matter to people’s lives.

How can this help you?

This draft set of tools and frameworks supports you to think through impact on people’s lives at different stages of public policy development and delivery. They have been developed in workshops with a wide range of types of teams in public, private and civil society sectors.

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Resources

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May 14, 2020
Community business
Feb 12, 2020
Wellbeing evidence at the heart of policy
Sep 4, 2019
Social cohesion and community attachment: analysis of the Understanding Society Survey
Jul 1, 2019
Loneliness Conceptual Review
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Blog

160 articles See all
Apr 25, 2024 | By Nancy Hey
What Works Wellbeing: 10 years of impact
Centre Blog
Apr 11, 2024 | By Ingrid Abreu Scherer
Creative pathways to wellbeing: learnings from a synthesis of Spirit 2012’s case studies
Centre Blog
Apr 4, 2024 | By Alyson Dodd
What makes a happy university? Community wellbeing in a university setting
Guest Blog
Mar 21, 2024 | By What Works Centre for Wellbeing
What we know about national wellbeing, and the methods and measures to assess it 2014 – 2024
Guest Blog
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Practice Examples

41 practice examples See all
May 8, 2019
NZ Government creates a Living Standards Framework
Aug 28, 2018
Urban forests to improve wellbeing in dementia patients
May 10, 2018
Improving access to green space for BAMER communities
Sep 22, 2017
Wellbeing outcomes and national government: Scotland
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People

External resource

  • JUMP projects Happy Days volunteer report
  • Co-op Community Wellbeing Index
  • Thriving Places Index
  • World Happiness Report – happiness and voting behaviour
  • ONS governance and trust wellbeing data
In partnership with
  • Northumbria University
  • Department for Education
  • EPPI-Centre
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