A Vision for Glasgow Council's Drive to Regenerate the City Is Welcome
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IT IS not known where Steven Purcell's political ambitions or talents will take him. However, the leader of Glasgow City Council has already established credentials as a moderniser who believes in blue-sky thinking and joined-up strategies to tackle the problems that afflict Scotland's biggest local authority. These have been well documented.
Poverty and deprivation exert a baleful impact on communities where poor health, drug dependency, crime, unemployment and teenage pregnancies are at intolerably high levels. The city will be held back until the cycle, which afflicts generation after generation, is finally broken. Mr Purcell has a plan to do just that. As The Herald reveals today, Glasgow is to be the testing ground for a radical concept in local government which, if successful, could become the blueprint for civic administration throughout Scotland. Holyrood has been instrumental in helping drive forward change. Glasgow has picked up the baton, but if the project is to succeed nationwide, the Scottish Executive will have to get fully behind it, now.See the full content of this document
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A Vision for Glasgow Council's Drive to Regenerate the City Is Welcome
Glasgow's vision cannot be faulted. Most of the city's biggest public agencies are to join forces i...
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