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In Edinburgh, the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary School set out to use PB to empower pupils and encourage an understanding of how to make difficult decisions about competing priorities in a democratic and engaging way.
Read MoreIn a new piece, SCDC Director Susan Paxton has explored Scotland’s worsening health inequalities, while asking: "Where is the outrage?"
Read MoreWhat happens when women make the decisions about community priorities? That’s the story this short video tells from Santa Ana Tzacuala in Mexico, where PB has enabled innovative ideas from women and children to protect the environment and create spaces for families.
Read MoreTo create a fairer, more just society it’s vital that people in all communities can take part in our democracy, use their voice, and ensure their priorities are represented.
Read MoreThe International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) is asking this question through the annual Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award, which aims to recognise participatory and deliberative activity.
Read MoreCommunity-led action research is crucial tool that enables communities to set their priorities and carry out the actions they want to see. We recently set out our vision for what might be next, but what does it look like in action?
Read MorePeople with lived experience can bring unique knowledge, novel ideas and challenging questions to discussions around the issues they’re experts in – but how, and how much, we really value lived experience can raise significant questions.
Read MoreCommunity-led action research is an approach that sees communities deciding what issues needs to be researched, designing and carrying out the research themselves, and making use of the results to affect positive change.
Read MoreCash first approaches are becoming increasingly prominent, with many funders, community organisations and the government recognising that providing money, rather than in-kind support, gives people the agency to buy what they personally need, and reduces stigma.
Read MoreCould social prescribing be one of the tools to tackle Scotland’s persistent health inequalities? With a referral from a GP, people are connected with a dedicated social prescriber who explores what issues they’re facing, and the activities that could support them in their community.
Read MoreThe second phase of Scottish Government and COSLA’s Democracy Matters consultation closes today, following an opportunity for communities to share their ideas about what decision-making powers could look like, and how potential new decision-making bodies might work.
Read MoreScotland’s health inequalities paint a stark picture. With healthy life expectancy stalling over the last decade, it’s now beginning to decrease.This means that on average the poorest men in Scotland can expect just 44.9 years in good health versus 71 years for the wealthiest.
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