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The SCDC Weekly gives you everything you need to know around community development and beyond.
Every Wednesday we bring together the shared knowledge of our team and give you the context you need to deliver your work.
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Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Anti-poverty organisations have said that last week’s Scottish budget should have gone further to address child poverty as Scotland.
How do we ensure that policy is informed by the knowledge, skills and experience of the people and organisations in our communities?
Participants at the CHEX Conference 2026 next month will be discussing this question and other pressing issues.
What's the relationship between health inequalities and climate impact? That's the question Unbound will be exploring with Scotland's communities.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
A new article focuses on the importance co-production, long-term investment and transparency play as part of a preventative approach, all crucial features allowing this way of working to make a real difference to people’s lives.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Thank you for reading the SCDC Weekly during 2025. We hope it’s been a helpful resource to support your work and knowledge of the complex sector we work in.
Average life expectancy in Scotland has risen to near pre-pandemic levels, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland (NRS), but the difference between the most and least deprived areas remains stark.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Our training offer is specifically designed to support public bodies and partnerships to understand these broad policy trends and objectives, giving staff time to gain new knowledge and skills - and confidently apply them in their work.
Human rights are central to community development, with its practice rooted in the belief that all people should have access to health, wellbeing, wealth, justice and opportunity.
The CHEX team are excited to announce the date for the annual conference, building on learning about the realities of what makes community-led health work on the ground.
Last week the UK Government announced it would scrap the two-child limit to benefits in April 2026 as part of its latest Budget measures.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
A Scottish Government pilot has shown the positive impact multi-year funding has on third sector organisations providing essential support to their communities.
With COP 30 - the annual UN Climate Change Conference - concluding last week, it's timely to explore the role community development plays in supporting local action on climate priorities.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
What does trust mean to you? That’s the question SCDC and the Scottish Government are seeking to explore in a series of sessions and self-facilitated discussions focused on trust and transparency in Scotland.
A new report has set out the key priorities around how human rights can be incorporated into Scottish law ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
A new article has outlined the ways community food initiatives, from large, well-established organisations to small grassroots groups, are positively addressing community health across Scotland.
What does trust mean to you? That’s the question SCDC and the Scottish Government are seeking to explore in a series of sessions and self-facilitated discussions focused on trust and transparency in Scotland.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Co-production is a key tool to enable people and communities to be empowered, valued and meaningfully involved in how decisions are made.
The Poverty and Inequality Commission has published its recommendations for how the Scottish Government can meet its legally binding child poverty targets.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Carnegie UK has launched the latest edition of its Life in the UK Index, which shows that the lives of people in the UK have not improved over the past year.
SCDC recently published a joint statement setting out the urgent action required if we're to support preventative approaches to tackling Scotland’s health inequalities crisis.