Community Development Alliance Scotland/SCDC Seminar
1 November 2007
The Scottish Government was elected on a platform which includes proposals for ‘new powers for communities’. These include:
- giving deprived communities the ability to opt for a new ‘empowered status’, which might allow local people to co-manage a proportion of public spending and services
- devolving greater responsibilities to community councils, including possible responsibility for a portion of current local spending.
This Seminar allowed people from all the sectors involved to look at what this might mean in practice and what community development can do to help make such powers work effectively. Our discussions will contribute directly to the work that the Scottish Government has begun on the implementation of these proposals.
Speakers included:
Stephen Maxwell (Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations)
Alasdair McKinlay (Communities Scotland)
