The Scottish Government is bringing forward a new socio-economic duty for the public sector.

This duty means that key public bodies – like local councils and the National Health Service – will have to think carefully about how they can reduce poverty and inequality whenever they make the big decisions that are important to all of us. These decisions include, for example, an economic development plan; or an annual budget setting out spending priorities.

IACD partner, the Scottish Community Development Centre has submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s recent consultation paper on the duty. In summary, it proposes that the duty requires the public sector to support people experiencing poverty to be at the heart of efforts to address socio-economic inequality.

http://www.scdc.org.uk/…/scdc-response-socio-economic-duty…/

“Congratulations on an excellent summary of what CD is all about in the depths of this consultation response. I think it deserves pulling out and being presented as a stand-alone paper on why it is important and how it works”. Stuart Hashagen, Chair European Community Development Network