What is Community Links West Dunbartonshire?

Community Links West Dunbartonshire (CLWD) act as a mechanism for Housing Associations to enable local people to create and access improved services across West Dunbartonshire.

What is Wider Role?

Below are various definitions to describe what wider role is:

	activities undertaken by Registered Social Landlords - RSLs (see below), in addition to the provision, improvement and management of housing, to build sustainable communities.
	a Communities Scotland idea, to be implemented by Housing Associations and Co-operatives with implications crossing over existing providers ranging from community groups to Executive departments
	Community Links West Dunbartonshire style has involved working with individual associations, helping identify their priorities, considering existing or new ways of resolving them and implementing this.
	not just glossy projects, but fundamental in all aspects of RSLs activity with particular implications for front line and housing management staff.

What is a Housing Association/Co-operative

Housing Associations are run by Committees of Management who employ professional staff to build and manage houses. In small locally based associations the Committee may be made up of tenants or a mix of tenants and others from the local community. Larger associations recruit Management Committee Members from their tenants, community representatives, members of the business community, trade unionists, retired people, anyone with something useful to contribute to a successful organisation. Committees are elected by the Members of the housing association. Tenants are normally eligible to be members, as are other interested people who volunteer to get involved.

What is a Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)?

There are a number of different types of associations, but they are all Registered Social Landlords; this means they register with the Government housing agency, Communities Scotland. We use 'housing association' as a term to cover all the different types.

What is Social Exclusion?

A breakdown or malfunction of the major societal systems that guarantee citizenship. This happens when an individual and/or area suffers from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low income, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown.

What is Social Inclusion?

A strategy or initiative at an individual and/or area to help those experiencing multiple deprivation back into the mainstream of everyday life. Inclusion requires a personal state of mind and circumstance. This enables individuals to overcome and remove barriers and realise their potential thus participating in the social and economic mainstream.

What is Community Regeneration?

Self-management and participation processes, and investment, directed at the economy, environment and social life of disadvantaged areas and households. These generate long-lasting improvements in the prospects of residents and promote their full integration with society, accord with resident's needs and aspirations, and are likely to benefit coming generations.

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