1. Community development and regeneration: a Scottish perspective

2. SCDC
We are an independent voluntary organisation with a 21 year history
Our mission is for an active, inclusive and just Scotland
We work with communities, practitioners and policy makers
We specialise in community engagement, community capacity building, action research, community led health and participatory outcomes focused planning and evaluation 2

3. Glasgow 1950s – commerce, shipbuilding, housing, industry, thriving
(our office is in what was a shipping agent building)

4. Here’s the same thing these days – the docks have been replaced with a string of new ‘cultural’ buildings – an exhibition centre, a science centre, two music venues, two hotels, the HQ of both the BBC and SMG, a transport museum designed by an internationally renowned architect … only the crane remains as a reminder
People will tell you that this is regeneration – it boost civic pride, attracts visitors, creates jobs, the air is cleaner, and the economic benefit is said to ‘trickle-down’ to the many poor people in the city
A post-industrial city – note the emphasis on culture and creativity City of Culture!
But is this the only narrative, or the most important one?

5. … or is it about fixing past mistakes?
Here’s a different image: communities campaigning in the 1980s to protest about conditions in quite newly-built estates

6. … that same area now looks like this: ‘Yuppies’ have moved in, the poor people are either still there or have been moved away. So have things changed?
We have two versions of regeneration, one is top down, macho and physical infrastructure – the other is community-led, about social justice (ref social inclusion partnerships) and community development.

7. Community-led Regeneration
‘defined by actions that are based on the needs and issues understood by and experienced by communities themselves, where communities are supported to take the lead in identifying and implementing local solutions’
It is a complex story, and we are making it very simple, but our government provided a policy document in 2009 (?) called Achieving a Sustainable Future which put the agenda in the hands of communities as this quote makes clear.
Where does community developmet fit in?
A few years earlier, as the idea of ‘partnerships’ between communities and government was taking hold, we had prepared what became the National Standards for Community Engagement – drawn up with engagement of communities, workers, police, municipalities etc – and basically some ground rules to make participation as effective, productive and inclusive as possible!

8. Supporting Participation
The 10 commitments
Monitoring &
evaluating
Open
participation
Giving
Feedback
National
Standards for
Community
Engagement
Clear
Plans &
Purposes
Supporting Participation
Improving
skills
Practical
supports
Working
with
others
Appropriate
Methods
Sharing
information
Working
together

9. The stark health inequalities in Glasgow are demonstrated by the drop in life expectancy of 2.0 years for males and 1.2 years for females for each station on the railway line between Jordanhill and Bridgeton
14 years males
Source: McCartney G. Illustrating Glasgow’s health inequalities. JECH 2010; doi /jech

10. Christie Commission
‘’A decisive shift to prevention… building services round people and communities’
It is a complex story, and we are making it very simple, but our government provided a policy document in 2009 (?) called Achieving a Sustainable Future which put the agenda in the hands of communities as this quote makes clear.
Where does community developmet fit in?
A few years earlier, as the idea of ‘partnerships’ between communities and government was taking hold, we had prepared what became the National Standards for Community Engagement – drawn up with engagement of communities, workers, police, municipalities etc – and basically some ground rules to make participation as effective, productive and inclusive as possible!

11. Policy environment in Scotland
Public services reform – changing the relationship between the citizen and the state
Interest in social model of health
Co-production prominent in health and social care
Emphasis on community led regeneration
Moves towards hyper local models
Impending Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

12. Examples of support for community led regeneration
Development Trusts Association Scotland – asset ownership
Housing associations – wider role activity
Community Land Scotland
Community Woodland
Trusts, grants, investments
but small scale, benefiting confident communities!

13. Regenerated, healthy and empowered community
Develop shared spaces
Encourage social support networks
Identify local assets - knowledge, experience, time
Support local people to come together to turn individual issues into community concerns
Environment is structured, predictable and explicable
More community involvement to address neighbourhood issues
text
Personal and community development seen as worthwhile
Increased individual responsibility for behaviour change
Build community
Regenerated, healthy and empowered community
Strong, resilient and influential community
Build capacity
Build influence
Take this further – how to build ‘capacity, community and influence’
More positive health and wellbeing outcomes
Engage communities in decision making processes
Support the development of skills and knowledge on wider regeneration issues
Use local knowledge and experience to influence decisions
Develop initiatives which engender meaningful local involvement
Support independent action
Opportunities for individual, family and community advancement taken up
Build skills and knowledge
Untap, mobilise and build on local assets
Build local groups
Support local governance
Greater engagement with initiatives such as work programmes
Decreased impact on public services

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