Care In Your Community

Stephen Richard — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:08:48 +0000

Primary Author or Creator

Colin Turbett

Stephen Richard Sun, 09/12/2021 - 22:08

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Common Weal

Date Published

Mon, 06/21/2021 - 12:00

Category

Community

Type of Resource

Policy Paper

Fast Facts

Putting Community Hubs at the heart of a National Care Service.

More details

― The notion of resilient communities coping with the pandemic has revived the notion of community hubs as significant centres for public service delivery and voluntary activity.

― Community development as a component of the shaping and delivery of services has a long history, but suffered through the years of politically-contrived public expenditure cuts and austerity.

― Notions of community empowerment already enshrined in law ought to be compatible with the decentralisation of public services and bottom-up community partnership and control.

― Community hubs could offer a physical base for a model of public service based on relationships at local level, local networks and partnerships, and local democracy.

― The National Care Service that Scotland needs could be managed and delivered at local level through community hubs.

― Just as the 1939-1945 World War crisis led to visions of a different kind of world in the peace to follow, so should we be similarly ambitious in our vision of our country post-pandemic.

Resource Address (URL)

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Community-Hubs.pdf

Keywords

Community hubs

Community empowerment

National Care Service

Language English