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News

SSDF Autumn Conference: Sustainable Micro-economies

21st September, Radisson Blu Hotel, Edinburgh

What models are successful? How does a green economy work?

With discussions taking place across the country on localism and the need for a new economic system for low carbon living this year's conference will bring some of the leading voices in this area to present and stimulate the debates.

Read the full story here.

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Events

Big Tent Summer School, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 - Friday, 23 July 2010, Falkland - Falkland Centre for Stewardship, The Stables, Falkland Estate, Falkland, KY15 7AF
The Big Tent Summer School is a learning programme that has been organised by Transition Scotland Support and One Planet Food. Over the 3 days it will bring together participants interested in learning, developing and sharing skills for low carbon living.

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The Skills Action Partnership Programme are looking for 15 - 20 practitioners to attend the focus group in Edinburgh.

"Neighbourhoods are going to be key: they are the building blocks of public services society".

There is a growing shift towards localism. This is where local people, communities and local public services and employers work  together - conducive to place making, and stems from a bottom up  approach to informing skills rather than top down.

There are a number of jobs that sit under the umbrella of the ‘place making sector' - and this shift towards a bottom up approach to creating great places demands different skills within individual professions.  We want to know what these jobs and ‘functions' include as part of their role and remit.

It is about people working in local places that makes them cohesive and safe and without fear of crime. Housing, transport and regeneration is well designed and planned together with the people who live there.  It is about development and growth that is sensitive to the environment.  It is about green and civic places that people want to spend leisure time in and where there are facilities to support healthy communities. It is even broader than this and we want to know just how broad ‘place making' is.

We're a national partnership of more than 20 organisations committed to improving the skills of people in the place making sector. We want to create a functional analysis map for place making to capture this breadth of activity and recognise the common skills and tasks that practitioners are using in their jobs.

Scotland focus group - 24  August 2010, Edinburgh

The consultation, further information and details of all four focus groups can be found here: http://skills.homesandcommunities.co.uk/node/849

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