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Management in the Community
Local management is something we should all be actively interested in, and participate in, if we are to have a say on how we develop our community.
Our community is influenced by various bodies internal and external
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Hands on...
Community Councils are one of those groups who have been set up by law to represent the views of the local community. See a list of Renfrewshire Community Councils here
Advisory...
We have a lot of people and groups who help us in various fields, some are government sponsored and some are there because Governments, local and national can be deaf and they need us to shout so they can hear us:
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Political Processes
We have various politicians who represent us in the different seats of democracy. Councillors do this at a local level, while MP's (Member of Parliament) represents your views in Westminster, while MSP's (Member of the Scottish Parliament) represent us in the Scottish Parliament.
If you have a vote use it, one of the key ways to protect our community is to vote!
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Click on the links below to expand them and click them again to close them!
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The devolved Government for Scotland is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.
It manages an annual budget of more than £30 billion in 2007-2008.
The Government was known as the Scottish Executive when it was established in 1999 following the first elections to the Scottish Parliament. The current administration was formed after elections in May 2007.
The Scottish Government is led by a First Minister who is nominated by the Parliament and in turn appoints the other Scottish Ministers who make up the Cabinet.
Civil servants in Scotland are accountable to Scottish Ministers, who are themselves accountable to the Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh EH1 3DG
Tele: 08457 741741 or
0131 556 8400
Fax: 0131 244 8240
Click here for the web site
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The Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament is the seat of power where the main legislation for Scotland is cdebated and created, located in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh.
The Parliament, informally referred to as Holyrood, is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members who are known as Members of the Scottish Parliament, or MSPs.
Members are elected for four-year terms under the mixed member proportional representation system. As a result, 73 MSPs represent individual geographical constituencies elected by the first past the post system and a further 56 returned from eight additional member regions, each electing seven MSPs.
Home Page: www.scottish.parliament.uk
List of MSP's: Click here for the MSP's pages
The Business of the day: Click here
Electronic Petitions: Use them and vote on them
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SEPA Corporate Office
Erskine Court
Castle Business Park
STIRLING
FK9 4TR
Tel: 01786 457700
Fax: 01786 446885
Click here for the web site
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Friends of the Earth Scotland |
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Friends of the Earth Scotland
Lamb's House
Burgess Street
Edinburgh
EH6 6RD
Tel: 0131 554 9977
Fax: 0131 554 8656
Click here for the website
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Bishopton Action Group
Fighting against the creation of a housing estate on the contaminated lands of the old Royal Ordenance Factory at Bishopton. They have proven flawed data, ineptitude and some highly questionable actions by the local council. We include them here because of the potentially serious health risk posed to the Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde areas should they start to burn the buildings and dig up the land. More areas if the wind blows your way.
Secretary
Bishopton Action group
c/o Kilallan
Sachelcourt Avenue
Bishopton
PA7 5AA
Visit their web site
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The European Parliament
The European Parliament is the only directly-elected body of the European Union. The 785 Members of the European Parliament are there to represent you, the citizen. They are elected once every five years by voters right across the 27 Member States of the European Union on behalf of its 492 million citizens.
Web Site: The English version of the web site
Your Representatives, MEP's: Click here
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