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Pàrlamaid Dhùthchail na h-Alba
#ScotRP2014
Key Themes 2014Emma Cooper, Scottish Rural Parliament Coordinator
Identifying the themes
• Existing research
• Ten options
• Online survey
• Offline survey
• Board decision
Key Themes
• Rural businesses and employment• Access to broadband• Transport infrastructure• Issues of land use and planning • Protecting natural assets and adapting to
environmental change• Support for communities to lead with
confidence• Health and social care
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building supportive strategic infrastructure eg smaller scale abattoirs and product dev premises is crucial
We have funding for community minibuses, but not for scheduled services. Funding streams dictate use.
Decent broadband & mobile essential for remote health & social care #ruralhour All interconnected
Enabling young people to making a living & build a life in remote/rural locations - land for homes & small businesses
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Imperative to value and support those who already work with the environment not just newer large scale projects
Good governance is hard, but training and guidance becoming easier to access through TSIs
Excellent GP services here but recruitment & retention an increasing problem in remote rural areas.
Local Events
• Cairngorms• Fife• Moray and Nairn• Perth• Loch Lomond• Orkney• Golspie• Shetland• Perthshire• Ullapool• Argyll
• Castle Douglas• Skye• Angus• Ayr• Dumfries and Galloway• Borders• Aberdeenshire• Isle of Lewis• Isle of Benbecula• Isle of Jura• Lochcarron/Applecross• Canonbie• Isle of Bute
Scottish Rural Parliament
• All workshops lead to recommendations for change• Collated for Saturday morning• Strategy • Voting• Report – February 2015• Debate in Scottish Parliament
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www.scottishruralparliament.org.ukT @ScotRuralParlF Scottish Rural Parliament
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Friday Programme
8 for 8.30 Presentations• Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment, Mr Richard
Lochhead, MSP• Carol Craig, CEO, Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing – Local decision-
making and community confidence. • Anneli Kana, Estonian Rural Parliament – Impact of the Estonian Rural
Parliament on rural communities
10.15 & 11.45 Key Theme Workshops
14.15 Open Space Workshop
19.15 Dinner
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Saturday Programme
9 for 9.30 Presentation• Cllr David O’Neill, Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy
10.30 Future of the Scottish Rural Parliament
12noon Ideas, to policy, to delivery– moving our rural agenda forward.
13.20 Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning and local MSP, Michael Russell
13.40 Concluding remarks, John Hutchison, Chair of Scottish Rural Action