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Dilemmas of Community Planning

Lessons From Scotland

Stephen Sinclair

Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Stephen.Sinclair{at}gcal.ac.uk

Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) are a central feature of a programme of local government modernization and public service reform in Scotland. CPPs are intended to ensure that local authorities, other local public agencies, the voluntary, community and private sectors develop a shared vision for their area and work in partnership to implement this. CPPs therefore have much in common with similar initiatives in other parts of the UK, such as communities strategies, Local Strategic Partnerships, and proposals contained in the 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill in England. This article discusses how the development of CPPs relates to devolution in Scotland. It identifies systemic dilemmas, if not contradictions, encountered in implementing community planning in Scotland. Tensions exist reconciling partnership working with local authority leadership; between community planning as an additional or core duty of public agencies; between community engagement and the practical demands of policy making; and between central government direction and local partnership autonomy.

Key Words: community planning • devolution • local governance • partnerships

Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 23, No. 4, 373-390 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0952076708093250
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