1. Shaping Stirling’s Future Spreading the Benefits – Delivering Inclusive Growth Wednesday, 7th March Stewart Carruth Chief Executive Stirling Council

2. What do we mean by Inclusive Growth?
Growth that combines increased prosperity with greater equity that creates opportunities for all and distributes the dividends of increased prosperity fairly.
Scottish Government Economic Strategy 2015
Broad-based growth that enables the widest range of people and places to both contribute to and benefit from economic success. Its purpose is to achieve more prosperity alongside greater equity in opportunities and outcomes’
RSA: Inclusive Growth Commission 2016
Current Model
Grow Now
Redistribute later
New Model
Investment in social infrastructure is an integral driver of growth where people contribute to and benefit from a new kind of growth
Quality of Growth
Place based & people
Investment in physical and social infrastructure
Integrated social and economic policy

3. Inclusive Growth: Putting Principles into Practice (2)

4. Measuring the relationship between
Tackling Inequality and Prosperity - Stirling

5. How is Stirling’s City Region Deal delivering Inclusive Growth?

6. What can we learn from elsewhere?
Cities and Inclusive Growth
Place: Helsinki
Human centric development, placing individuals centre stage.
Creating a good city to live in and making the city better for everyone.
Embed design concepts in their economic strategies and use design to carry out creative and effective citizen engagement and collaborative creation of services.
Transport and Inclusive Growth
Place: Cleveland and Leipzig
Up-to-date and high quality data has been utilised to allow the mapping of the location of welfare recipients, entry-level job opportunities and existing public transport systems
Re-route of transit systems to deliver enhanced connectivity.
Data has also been similarly used implement an urban monitoring system to help understand population movements to guide policies aimed at enhancing connectivity.

7. Final Thoughts
Measuring the economy – how we do it, shapes the conversation
Whole view – Region to Region; Pan Scotland; Pan UK
Adaptive and Flexible?
Not all about the City Region Deal ……….