COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND

CDAS has produced a Statement of Principle on Community Development in Scotland [Read it here] .

The purpose of the statement is to reaffirm that community development:

• involves and is supported by a wide range of partners
• can make a major contribution to achieving our social and economic goals
• is a set of skills and values that are applied by community development workers
• but is also a set of strategic principles that allow the public and other sectors to achieve change through working with and strengthening communities.

We invite all Scottish agencies and organisations that work in and with communities to endorse the principles set out in the statement and to join in debate on the issues arising, the strategies that need to be adopted, and the responsibilities of various agencies and sectors for implementing them.

The Statement of Principle is backed by a more detailed Position Statement [Read it here].

This looks at:

• what community development  is and its principles
• how it supports the achievement of Scotland’s strategic objectives
• how it embraces other important ideas, such as community capacity building, community engagement and community empowerment
• how it relates to the delivery of many specific areas of policy
• who is involved in community development  in Scotland
• and briefly at the skills and values involved in community development .