SUMMER recess is always one of the best times of the year for MPs and not just because you don’t have to deal with Westminster. Mainly it’s…
Glasgow City Council administration introduced has been one of the best initiatives the city has seen in years, and that’s not just my opinion – it is what community organisations across my constituency have told me.What sets this apart from things we have seen before is that it isn’t the council turning up for a few weeks in the summer and running identical programmes in each area – local organisations with local knowledge are being empowered to do it themselves.
Politics, locally and nationally, should be about doing things with people rather than to them. We have seen the consequences of a lack of resilience in communities when the shock of the financial crisis resulted in far less money being spent by public bodies and as services were cut communities went without.
The People Make Glasgow Communities programme has been how Glasgow is dealing with the asset transfer aspect of this and has had some hugely successful examples already. There have been more than 600 notes of interest by groups across the city at various stages of the process but this is a far cry from the fire sale that the usual naysayers claimed.This is community empowerment in action – it is partnership working between politicians and community organisations to deliver better outcomes for local people, and surely that’s what it’s all about.
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