The Pride in Place Explorer for Scotland is a stripped-down version of OCSI’s data platform, Local Insight. Here you can explore community need and deprivation data for neighbourhoods that will receive Pride in Place funding.
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The Pride in Place Explorer includes the Scottish Community Needs Index and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. These were the core measures used to identify the priority neighbourhoods for Phase 2 (announced September 2025).
We are the co-creators of the Scottish Community Needs Index, alongside the British Red Cross, but we have not had any input into how the data was used as part of the Pride in Place strategy. Therefore we cannot offer any insight or advice into how Pride in Place neighbourhoods were identified.
You can, however, read the technical methodology paper to better understand how this dataset was constructed.
The 10 Scottish neighbourhoods identified in Phase 1 are available to explore on the Pride in Place Explorer.
Phase 1 was first launched as a £1.5 billion programme to invest up to £20 million each in 75 areas over the next decade – a long-term strategy to fix the foundations of those places most left behind.
The place selection methodology was developed and carried out under the previous Conservative government, and named the Long-Term Plan for Towns (LTPT). The government then changed the approach but took the decision to commit to deliver the funding to the 75 locations and renamed the programme to the Plan for Neighbourhoods to reflect the new approach.
Lower-tier local authorities were ranked according to their Levelling Up Need. The most deprived built up area (BUA) within each of these local authorities was then selected using the rankings of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.
The 75 Phase 1 places were selected in two parts. An initial 55 places in ‘Part A’ in October 2023, followed by a further 20 places in ‘Part B’ in March 2024.
For more information, refer to the Phase 1 place selection methodology note.
The 14 Scottish neighbourhoods for Phase 2 are available in the Pride in Place Explorer
Phase 2 funds an additional 169 neighbourhoods across Great Britain with their own £20 million over 10 years.
Phase 2 neighbourhoods are identified using a composite measure of deprivation (the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)) and community need (Scottish Community Needs Index (SCNI)).
These areas are the provisional boundaries of neighbourhoods included in Scotland’s Pride in Place Phase 2. Final boundaries will be set by the Neighbourhood Boards.
The area boundaries you see in the Pride in Place Explorer are approximate, based on definitions shared with us by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
For more information, refer to the Phase 2 methodology note.
The 8 Scottish local authorities selected for the Pride in Place Impact Fund are available in the Pride in Place Explorer.
The Pride in Place Impact Fund (PiPIF) is a capital programme to be delivered over two years (2025/26 and 2026/27) across 95 local places in Great Britain (£1.5 million each). These 95 places were identified using a combination of ‘need’ metrics such as deprivation, community infrastructure and Community Life Survey evidence relating to ‘pride’ or satisfaction in a place.
For more information, refer to the Pride in Place Impact Fund methodology note.
The Scottish neighbourhoods have not been publicly announced, but the 2 Scottish local authorities these will be situated in are available on the Pride in Place Explorer.
In June 2025, the government announced 25 trailblazer neighbourhoods that will each receive up to £20 million over the next decade.
For more information, refer to the Policy Paper on “trailblazer neighbourhoods”.
Our Local Insight platform brings together 1,500+ local place-based datasets to give comprehensive insight into any neighbourhoods you are working with, through interactive maps, reports and dashboards.
You can also bring in your own datasets to get a more rounded picture of service provision and needs. If this sounds like something that could be useful for your work, book a demo with our team.
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