Glasgow's Healthier Future Forum 20

Power, Health and Social Justice

The focus of this Healthier Future Forum was on how power might be redistributed more equally with communities and how we can collectively realise the vision for greater community empowerment in Scotland. The intention of our GHFF events is to engage a broad audience in dialogue on emerging issues of relevance to health and health inequalities. In doing so, we seek to allow different perspectives to be shared and new learning to emerge to support progress on these important issues. This event was attended by 150 delegates from a broad range of backgrounds including community organisations, individuals working to improve and change different aspects of their communities and services, community councils and third and public sector colleagues. 

At the event we presented our new animation on ‘Power as a health and social justice issue’, produced in partnership with NHS Health Scotland. We discussed the evidence behind this, explored opportunities within the national context including the Community Empowerment Act and supported the sharing of perspectives, experiences and learning with those who are already working to redistribute power in different settings. The format for the morning was a brief scene setting in plenary followed by interactive workshops.

The plenary and workshop presentations from the forum are available to download below.