Building community wealth: consultation
The Programme for Government 2022-23 outlined that we will hold a consultation on community wealth building legislation. We welcome a wide range of views on the changes that are required to grow local wealth and give communities a greater stake in the economy.
Footnotes
1. Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation
2. Co-operative Development Scotland: Blog
3. Democracy Collaborative: Community Wealth Building - What Next
4. How we built Community Wealth: Preston
5. The role of anchor organisations is highlighted within the Population Strategy 'A Scotland for the Future' which includes commitments to ensure that Scotland's population is more balanced across the country, meaning changes may be required to support attraction and retention of people in those areas of the country that are facing a declining population. A Scotland for the future: Opportunities and challenges of Scotland's changing population
6. A just transition is both the outcome – a fairer, greener future for all – and the process that must be undertaken in partnership with those impacted by the transition to net zero. Just transition is how we get to a net zero and climate resilient economy, in a way that delivers fairness and tackles inequality and injustice.
7. Annex A provides an overview of this activity
8. Covid Recovery Strategy: For a fairer future
10. See more examples employee owned and cooperative business models Co-operative Development Scotland: Blog
11. Scottish Hub for Regional Economic Development: Case Studies
12. A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Programme for Government 2021-22
13. Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party - Shared Policy Programme
14. Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation
16. Wellbeing economy toolkit: supporting place based economic strategy and policy development
17. Best Start, Bright Futures: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2022 to 2026
18. As a starter, we would propose the organisations which are covered by the Fairer Scotland Duty: Fairer Scotland Duty: guidance for public bodies
19. These are documents which commit selected local and regional anchor organisations, predominantly public sector, to specific pledges across the CWB pillars.
20. Place Principle: introduction
21. For examples of spending pillar activity see the CWB Guide: link to be inserted following publication
22. The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
23. The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016
24. The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
25. Scottish Government procurement strategy: April 2022 to March 2024
26. More information on the sustainable procurement duty is available at Public sector procurement.
27. Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014: statutory guidance
28. Sustainable Procurement Tools
29. Public sector leadership on the global climate emergency: guidance
30. They are defined in the Procurement Reform Act as: a community benefit requirement is a contractual requirement imposed by a contracting authority
(a) relating to:
(i) training and recruitment, or
(ii) the availability of sub-contracting opportunities, or
(b) which is otherwise intended to improve the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of the authority's area in a way additional to the main purpose of the contract in which the requirement is included.
31. Public sector procurement: Sustainable Procurement Duty
32. Measuring social impact in public procurement: SPPN 10/2020
33. Fair Work First: guidance Fair work and procurement
34. Advertising subcontracting opportunities on the Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) website: SPPN 5/2019
35. For examples of workforce pillar activity see the EDAS: CWB Guide and the Refreshed Fair Work Action Plan: Fair Work action plan: becoming a leading Fair Work nation by 2025
36. Find our more information here: Fair Work Convention
37. Can Good Work Solve the Productivity Puzzle
39. Fair Work Employer Support Tool
40. South of Scotland Enterprise Act 2019
42. No One Left Behind: delivery plan
43. Analysis of Fair Work Nation consultation responses available at Becoming a Fair Work Nation: consultation analysis
44. For examples of land and property pillar activity see the EDAS: CWB Guide
45. Land reform in a Net Zero Nation: consultation paper
46. Scottish land rights and responsibilities statement
47. Planning Obligations: Section 75
48. Planning - the value, incidence and impact of developer contributions: research
50. The Scottish Land Commission: Guidance
51. Delivering our Vision for Scottish Agriculture. Proposals for a new Agriculture Bill
52. For examples of inclusive ownership pillar activity see the EDAS: CWB Guide
53. Scottish Enterprise: Employee Owned Business
54. Figures from November 2022
55. YE Scotland: Young people developing businesses with a social and/or environmental purpose
56. Business Purpose Commission
57. The 'Marcora Law' is named after an Italian law introduced in 1985 and gives workers support to organise a co-operative buyout or rescue when a business is up for sale or under threat. The Marcora Law legislates for the state to utilise specific powers to redirect welfare expenditure towards worker buy-outs – specifically, via a fund which invests in the share capital of a 'phoenix' co-operative, matching up to three times what the employees invest, by capitalising up to three years' unemployment benefit. The employees forgo the right to unemployment benefit during that period, should the co-operative fail. With powers over welfare expenditure, employment, and industrial relations not within the devolved competence of the Scottish Government, the Marcora Law is not directly replicable in the Scottish context. (Source: Owning the workplace, securing the future )
58. For examples of finance pillar activity see the EDAS: CWB Guide
59. Interim Principles for Responsible Investment in Natural Capital
60. Scottish land rights and responsibilities statement
61. Further examples are available here: insert links to CWB Guide
62. Scottish Hub for Regional Economic Development
63. SHRED - North Ayrshire. See North Ayrshire Council CWB case studies at Case Study: North Ayrshire
64. Ayrshire Growth Deal - Community Wealth Building
65. Fair Work action plan: becoming a leading Fair Work nation by 2025
66. Scotland's Housing to 2040 strategy
67. Find out more about the support on offer at Supplier Development Programme
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