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Session six of the Symposium. Talks about projects on partnerships with communities done with regard to the Christie Commission. The first is the Healthy Wealthy Children Project, the second the Equally Well test site in Govanhill. Gives the background on GCPH's work in developing inequalities thinking and support partnerships. The Healthy Wealthy Children project spanned 15 months and looked at the impact on service users and models of development for community health partnerships. Partners were NHS midwives and health visitors. He describes the project. It linked issues to do with gender, lone parenthood and risk with action on inequalities and money advice services. It looked at changes in service delivery by midwives and health visitors. It led to increased access to benefits that customers were entitled to. Onward support was increased and there was a good reach to ethnic groups and lone parents. There was excellent engagement from midwives and health visitors. The Govanhill project concerned participatory budgeting and developed from work done in Brazil. It gave local people a democratic involvement in how public money was spent. GOCA was a main driver, it was facilitated by Oxfam UK and evaluated by GCPH. He explains how the money was spent. Lessons learned included that an independent facilitator was important, and that people felt empowered. The money was used wisely. Challenges included time pressures, community representation, perhaps more young people could have been involved. The Healthy Wealthy Children project is ongoing, GCPH has a light touch involvement. They are now looking at new work with the voluntary sector on the changing nature of work, in work poverty and the impact on health. The welfare reforms that are taking place in the UK are very significant with regard to public spending, work and other issues. How can the GCPH extend methods of doing things differently for the challenges ahead?

In Lecture 3 of the 2014-2015 Seminar Series, Marilyn Waring, Professor of Public Policy AUT University, Auckland New Zealand, delivers a presentation on the Economics of Dignity. The dignity discussed concerns those people who are care givers and in particular, children and the question of children's agency. Professor Waring relates this to the new provisions in Scotland for carers and young carers and poses questions about their dignity.

6 of 7 films on the theme of 'Taking forward the Thriving Places Approach - Learning from Elsewhere'. Laura McDonald presents Child Friendly Cities and discusses two projects from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gives background on Belfast Healthy Cities, part of World Health Organisation European Healthy Cities Network. Talks about engaging children to provide input into the development of the built environment, the benefits of child friendly environments from health, social and economic perspectives. Presents The Schools Project (West Belfast), gives the aims, work undertaken, and talks about how the evidence from events was presented to the Department of Social Development (DSD), part of the Northern Ireland Executive, which was then used in the Streets Ahead Project. Presents Kids Space Project, a collaborative approach to shared family play-enabling families to take ownership of areas in the City Centre. Discusses the main themes - Active Space, Free Space and Creative Space. Talks about how events were also used as consultative opportunities, appointing a Community Artist to help gather information which was fed back to the DSD. Discusses future opportunities, working with teenagers, engaging with areas of North Belfast to utilise unused space there, continuing to provide information to the DSD to inform regeneration initiatives and the work currently underway to gather information and develop a Child Friendly City Strategy for Belfast.