A group of charities led by Friends of the Earth Scotland, Oxfam Scotland and WWF Scotland (and supported by many others including CDAS) have produced a briefing on ‘Revising Scotland’s National Performance Framework’. They call on the Scottish Government to:
- Remove the reference to ‘increasing sustainable economic growth’ from the Single Purpose in recognition that economic growth is one of many means to the goal of flourishing, and not an end in itself.
- Rewrite the Purpose Targets to reflect the range of social and environmental factors that underpin our long-term prosperity and flourishing. They recommend:
- A headline indicator of ‘Flourishing’ supported by a dashboard of indicators … In particular, they ask that this dashboard include subjective measures of wellbeing … and a measure of wealth and income distribution…
- A headline indicator for our Environmental Impact..
4. Report on wellbeing, equality and environmental quality at the same time as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) …
5. Amend policy guidance documents so that national policy appraisal and decision making is informed by the NPF …
