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  Strengthening Local Voices: Building Scotland’s Community-Led Local Development Network

  This week’s guest blog comes from Dinah Jackson, Principal Consultant and Future Ready Programme Manager at Urban Foresight. Dinah shares her perspective on the dynamic collaboration already in motion to build a national Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) network—an empowering initiative aimed at giving communities across Scotland a more influential role in shaping their own futures.

  20 October 2025
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  Strengthening Protection of Scotland’s Marine Environment: New Offshore MPA Measures Introduced

  Safeguarding the country’s marine environment.

  15 October 2025
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  The Borders Youth Local Action Group (YLAG) leads decision making on the youth facilities fund.

  Guest bloggers, Daniel (YLAG Member) and Chris (YLAG Co-ordinator), share how young leaders in the Borders helped shape regeneration—allocating £625K to improve youth spaces across the region.

  9 October 2025
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  Reimagining Childcare in Scotland’s Remote, Rural and Island Communities

  Caroline Hastings, from the Improvement Service, is this week's guest blogger—applying a rural and island lens to childcare.

  8 October 2025
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  Young people driving meaningful change

  The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) supports young people to drive meaningful change. Olivia Brown, spokesperson for the SYP reflects on the event.

  2 October 2025
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  Lessons from casework: Why behaviour matters as much as legislation

  In this guest blog, Rob Black of the Scottish Land Commission reflects on tenant farming in Scotland and highlights that the sector’s true challenges and successes stem not from legislation, but from human behaviour. Rob shares positive examples of collaboration, empathy, and constructive dialogue, showing that better practice is both possible and essential to shaping a fair and sustainable future for tenant farming.

  17 September 2025
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  Reflections from the Road: Tackling Child Poverty in Remote, Rural and Island Scotland

  Improvement Service Rural and Island Child Poverty Project Officer, Caroline Hastings, reflects on her experiences of building capacity to support remote rural and island authority areas.

  16 July 2025
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  Drouthy Days: is Scotland prepared for drought?

  This guest blog has been jointly written by members of The Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). The article explores the current situation, key impacts and Scotland’s preparedness for managing potential drought conditions.

  6 June 2025
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  Working to protect the elms

  The Assynt Elm Project is dedicated to protecting and preserving the trees. Thanks to support from Highland and Islands Conservancy, the project has been able to run a series of educational events to raise awareness and inspire community action. Woodland Officer, Gareth Parkinson, speaks about the project and next steps.

  25 April 2025