How rural and island wealth building strategies adopted by the Scottish Government may be leveraged to strengthen these strategies
The review points to the need for radical action. Community wealth building cannot be a single small step - a local authority putting a fraction of its budget towards a new local industry or a Health Board reviewing its HR policies. It must be comprehensive and for the long term. It must be applied from the bottom up, making the approach fit people and communities rather than constraining people and communities within a limited and rigid top down approach. It must also be recognised as a cross-cutting agenda and embedded not only in economic policy, but also in the National Planning Framework (NPF4), in the National Transport Strategy (NTS2), in climate policy, land reform and community empowerment.