About the Review Implementation Group
Remit
The purpose of the group is to oversee the actioning of the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review report recommendations. This requires
- creating a prioritised delivery plan to include expected costs and timescales for each recommendation
- liaising with a variety of stakeholders to make sure there are
- positive community impacts
- effective use of resources
- sharing of expertise and information
- identifying funds and resources to implement the delivery plan
- regular reporting to Council’s Policy and Sustainability Committee
- consulting with people and organisation in Edinburgh as required
- regular communication of the group's activities.
Outputs
The anticipated outputs are
- a series of projects to make sure the ESCLR recommendations are developed into achievable, impactful and measurable actions.
- annual progress reports to Council
- a final report summarising the group’s achievements.
Inaugral meeting
At the first meeting of the group on 20 October 2023:
- the members were formally introduced to each other
- agreed values and behaviours to guide their work going forwards
- agreed terms of reference
- discussions were initiated about assigning a lead and support member to take forward each of the recommendations. The pairs of members will work up costed proposals for relevant projects
- members had workshops to develop creative ideas for project delivery
- ideas were discussed on how to make sure there will be involvement from
- wider public
- ESCLR Supporters' Network
- other stakeholder
- potential partners.
More information
Contact us if you would like more information about the meeting. Email edinburghlegacyreview@edinburgh.gov.uk
Listen to Irene Mosota talk about the Implementation Group