This is the list of documents available for the submission Motion by Councillor Ruairi Kelly:- "Council notes that this year marks a decade since the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2015 with the overarching aim to "help communities to do more for themselves and have more say in decisions that affect them". And that in addition to the participation of communities in local decision-making; the extent to which public bodies are working together; and the impact they are having on socio-economic inequalities are also key measures. Council reflects that since the Act was passed in addition to community councils and planning structures, Glasgow's citizens involvement has been successfully supported in Citizens Panels and Assemblies and other forms of participatory democracy, as exampled by international award winning initiatives like Girlls@COP26 - the Solutions are Feminist and the Open Government Partnership award-winning Citizen Voice initiative which focuses on devolving power at a neighbourhood level to enable citizen participation and control over issues affecting their lives. Council recognises that the Act provides community bodies with a right to Asset Transfer Requests and the innovative People Makes Glasgow's Communities programme which 2024, His Majesties Inspectors from Education Scotland commended as highly effective practice in 2024, alongside Glasgow Life's Family Learning programme. Council in turn commends the community groups like the Easterhouse Community Sports Hub Partnership, now known as Easterhouse Henosis, a partnership between basketball Scotland, Easterhouse Phoenix and Easterhouse Community Sports Hub are now running and managing a community sports facility, delivering positive change and affordable opportunities to participate in a range of other physical activities for the Easterhouse community. Council commits through PMGC to engaging with other groups across the city like Drumchapel United Football Club who also have aspirations to deliver directly for their local communities. Council believes that whilst communities across Scotland are benefitting from the various measures of the Act, their Empowerment and the positive impact on socio economic inequalities are being harmed by ongoing UK Government austerity and economic incompetence by Westminster under Conservative and Labour governments which have disproportionately impacted deprived communities, leading to increased poverty, homelessness, and inequalities, with cuts to essential services. Condemned in 2019 by the UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in 2019, Council concurs with the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights conclusion in March 2025 that the ongoing UK commitment to has created a devastating domino effect on communities and they must reverse such policies as the two-child limit, the benefit cap and the five-week delay for the first Universal Credit payment. Council nevertheless reconfirms its commitment to community empowerment as demonstrated by the current open Call for applications through the Glasgow Communities Fund which aims to aims to tackle poverty and inequality through: - Building the skills, capacity and resilience of individuals and communities. - Removing or minimising disadvantages experienced by people, in particular those with protected characteristics. - Supporting activities and services that will enable and empower communities to become involved in the social, economic and cultural life of the city. Council recognises the recent Celebration and Learning event which over 250 community representatives funded by the Glasgow Communities Fund and Glasgow's Holiday Programme participated in, one of the many opportunities involved the third sector and local groups in the co-design of funds and the City as provided by our Community Plan 2024-2034 and other strategic commitments. Council thanks communities, community workers and groups across Glasgow and looks forward to their everyday positive impact being celebrated as part of our 850th celebrations and our £200k City Stories Fund agreed in the 2024-25 budget, one of the many measures that empower them and amplify our communities' voices.".

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