RFB - Ready For Business! Community Benefit Clauses. Scottish Government Community Benefit Clauses Subscribe for updates Register to receive email news alerts, daily digest, weekly roundup or Topic newsletters. Menu "The first question that we should ask when developing any contract specification should be: Can we include a community benefit clause? " John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, March 2010 Community benefit clauses provide a means of achieving sustainability in public contracts.
Engagement. The Scottish Government's Third Sector Division are funding a programme of market development which will: promote community benefits in procurement provide support to contracting authorities wishing to use community benefit clauses Construction Skills have developed guidance, including a range of indices, to help contracting authorities build community benefit clauses into construction contracts. Our Skillsforce provides information on programmes and financial assistance available for recruitment and training. Flickr. Index. CEIS – Supporting Enterprises and Communities. About CEiS | CEIS – Supporting Enterprises and Communities. Social Enterprise Scotland | Home. Third Force News — Third sector news. SOLACE - Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers.
SCVO Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. Scottish gov Increase the social economy turnover. Why is this National Indicator important? Creating the conditions for improved economic growth and social cohesion is critical to Scotland's long-term prospects for sustainable and widespread prosperity. These dual goals are central to the social economy; an economy established for social purposes, which tends to involve community or user participation, and is increasingly focused on sustainable growth. Social economy turnover represents the degree to which the third sector (i.e. charities, voluntary and volunteering organisations, faith organisations, co-operatives and mutual societies and social enterprises) is generating income through trading activity. What will influence this National Indicator? Turnover of the social economy increases as the sector itself grows and develops, as investment increases, and as more people and organisations choose to purchase products or services from an enterprising third sector.
What is the Government's role? How are we performing? Methodology. Social Economy - Social Economy. High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Social Economy There is increased interest in the use of official data to measure the third sector, both within the Scottish Government and UK government departments. This is intended to measure the sustainable growth of the social economy as a provider of more and better opportunities for individuals and as a provider of innovative, customer-focused public services.
The social economy captures the economic activity of the third sector, which embraces voluntary and community organisations, charities, social enterprises, mutuals and co-operatives. A proxy measure of the turnover of the social economy in Scotland has been developed. View chart data Sources: Scottish Government, IDBR (ONS), Scottish Register of Social Landlords Further Information Social Economy. COSLA - your local voice, nationally.