The Below Information is Forwarded to You From Our Partner Organisation The Scottish Community Safety Network (SCSN).
1/ HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland were carrying out an inspection on the policing response to hate crime which was paused earlier this year to refocus priorities to respond to the pandemic. Work has now restarted and HMICS are seeking views:
https://www.hmics.scot/news/hmics-seeks-your-views-police-investigation-hate-crime.
Please note that the survey closes at 12 noon on 30 October 2020.
2/ Community Empowerment Act Survey
The Scottish Parliament are doing a survey on people’s experiences of the Community Empowerment Act.
3/ The Scottish Community Development Centre has been working on a toolkit for community-led action research with some useful guidance and tools to help communities conduct their own research.
https://www.knowledgeispower.scot/toolkit-home
Here is some background on what community-led action is:
Community-led action research is where the community decides on the issue to be researched, designs and carries out the research, and makes use of the results to achieve positive change.
By community-led we mean that a community group or organisation decides to take action on an issue that is important to them. Help might be sought from academics, council officers or organisations like ourselves but it is ultimately the community who decides what they want to find out, how they will do this and why.
By action we mean anything that leads to positive change in and for that community: it could be a new community amenity, park, service or activity or an improvement to something already happening.
And by research we simply mean the organised collection of information to create knowledge that is recognised as having value. In community-led action research the community has a greater role in deciding which knowledge has value, which gives the research a validity that traditional forms of research struggle to achieve.
Community-led action research is the bringing together of these components to increase the ability of a community to achieve change.
Message Sent By
Mark Armstrong (NHWN, Community Support Officer, NW Scotland)