Connecting Scotland phase 3 - digital support for employability: evaluation

Annex C: Application Process

The application process for Connecting Scotland worked in the following way:

1. Third Sector organisations and local authorities applied for Connecting Scotland support on behalf of their clients.

2. Applications were made to SCVO (Connecting Scotland's delivery partner) who convened panels to assess the applications in partnership with designated local authority leads.

3. Applications were assessed on the basis that appropriate client groups had been identified who met the target criteria, and confidence in the organisation's ability to provide digital champion support.

4. An award formula was used to ensure a balance of awards across all of Scotland's local authority areas.

5. Successful organisations signed a grant agreement and committed to the programme's contractual obligations.

6. Post award, the Mhor Collective provided training for those nominated as digital champions in each organisation.

7. Devices were delivered to organisations who distributed them to their clients within a prescribed timeframe.

8. Post distribution, organisations submitted monitoring data on their device recipients to a central portal managed by SCVO.

How to access background or source data

The data collected for this social research publication

☐ are available in more detail through Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics

☐ are available via an alternative route <specify or delete this text>

☒ may be made available on request, subject to consideration of legal and ethical factors. Please contact csresearch@gov.scot for further information.

☐ cannot be made available by Scottish Government for further analysis as Scottish Government is not the data controller.