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19/02/2008 17:15
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The use of social clauses in business contracts can be used to regenerate local communities, one expert has advised.
According to finance secretary John Swinney, communities should be adding such clauses to business contracts if they wish to see a significant change in the number of opportunities that can be created, the BBC website reports.
His comments came following the release of the Community Benefits in Procurement report, which considered how local businesses could aid regeneration and create employment through public purchasing power.
"A degree of procurement skill and resource is needed to support community benefit clauses, so I am today issuing guidance to help other public bodies use their purchasing power to help people into the work," he said.
Mr Swinney has visited one area in Stirling to see how such schemes have been implemented to great effect as part of the Raploch Urban Regeneration Company - which has used social clauses to generate an estimated 225 new local jobs.
This week the Scottish government announced it had seen significant take-up in the number of businesses using its online procurement system.
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