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For me, that has always been quite an issue when we do this work, as you can be buying in the services of someone who has no understanding of the Scottish context.
From speaking with my colleagues who specialise in housing, I know that some clients who come to see us must choose between paying their rent and buying their children food. There have been such cases for all the years that I have worked for the Legal Services Agency, but our drop-in services and housing services see more and more of those cases.
It is still incredibly important that those communities have good engagement processes so that they are inclusive and that what comes out of the processes at the end, whether it is a physical building or a plan, has buy-in from all the community, by which I mean the council, community groups and so on.
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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee 12th Meeting, 2023 | Scottish Parliament Website
From consultation to participation
We asked if there is evidence that this shift from consultation to participation has happened, particularly with more disadvantaged and marginalised communities.
The very constrained timetable that the JCVI is asking us to work to means that we will have to hit a run rate every single week that is near the record run rate that we hit last winter, when we had the boosted by the bells campaign, if members remember that. That is on top of the usual winter pressures that we may well face.