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Pauline Graham Social Firms Scotland Margaret McCarthy Unity Enterprise

Pauline Graham Social Firms Scotland Margaret McCarthy Unity Enterprise. Social Enterprise in Scotland - Inspirations and Opportunities. Belfast - May 2012. Community Benefit clauses need not cost more and they require contractors working on public sector projects to put something

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Pauline Graham Social Firms Scotland Margaret McCarthy Unity Enterprise

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  1. Pauline GrahamSocial Firms ScotlandMargaret McCarthyUnity Enterprise

  2. Social Enterprise in Scotland- Inspirations and Opportunities Belfast - May 2012

  3. Community Benefit clauses need not cost more and they require contractors working on public sector projects to put something back into the community. The first question that we should ask when developing any Contract specification should be: ‘Can we include a Community Benefit clause?’" John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth,19th March 2010 “In these challenging economic times it is especially important that we get the maximum possible benefit for our communities from public spending.

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  8. Whose using CBiPs? • Central Government: Scottish Government contracts for the Energy Assistance Programme and Scottish Crime Campus. Business Support & Growth Fund contracts • NHS: Greater Glasgow and Clyde contract for the new Southern General Hospital (target of 250 new entrants trainees and social enterprise contracts in catering, recycling, soft landscaping and transport services) • Local Authorities: Glasgow City Council for Commonwealth Games contracts include 10% weighting in all contracts on CBiPs • Regeneration Agencies: Raploch Urban Regeneration Company (contractual commitment for 225 new entrant trainees) • RSLs: Glasgow HA(to date more than 1400 new opportunities created

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