Room for More Views? Sharing Power, Shaping Progress
On 21 November 2003, the People & Parliament Trust, in partnership with the Scottish Human Services Trust, the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Civic Forum, brought together 100 people in a Conference ?Sharing Power; Shaping Progress; Towards a Participative Democracy in Scotland?. Half were citizens with stories to tell of the work they had done or tried to do, with Scotland?s new democracy; half were ?the establishment? (MSPs, civil servants and officials). All had been personally involved in making ?partnership? real. The aim was to share experience; to assess how far hopes and the founding principles had been fulfilled: and to develop practical ideas and proposals for the next 4 years. This report is a brief summary of the main points with case studies, charts and personal stories.
