Ep. 47 - Insights from Scotland about Making Rights Real

In this episode Russell is joined by Hannah Kitchen Kirby and Clare MacGillivray to discuss human rights and to provide a helpful insight into a right-based approach in practice. Between them they provide the lead pair of articles in IACD's March 2025 edition of Practice Insights which is dedicated to the theme of rights: https://www.iacdglobal.org/practice_i... Hannah was until very recently working in Leith in Cables Wynd House, better known as the 'Banana Flats'. She explains how a rights-based approach was at the heart of efforts to secure investment into the housing. Edinburgh City Council recently announced Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Links View House will receive £69 million of investment, including the provision of lifts which had originally been omitted from plans but thanks to campaigning are now included (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cableswy.... Clare MacGillivray from the organisation Making Rights Real, provides an overview of her work with Gypsy Travellers at Double Dykes near Perth. You can follow Clare and Hannah: https://makingrightsreal.org.uk/ linkedin.com/company/making-rights-real uk.linkedin.com/in/clare-macgillivray-64382a95 bsky.app/profile/makingrightsreal.bsky.social https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/ bsky.app/profile/bethanychristiantrust.com facebook.com/BethanyChristianTrust1 instagram.com/bethanychristiantrust linkedin.com/company/bethany-christian-trust Photo credit: Hannah Kitchen Kirby. It features Cables Wynd House residents at the City Chambers in Edinburgh ahead of giving a deputation to the full council calling for new lifts. __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru