Games Legacy
Hosting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 presents the whole of Scotland with great opportunities to make material improvements to people's lives: to improve people's health, to help get people into work, to increase the confidence and international profile of Scotland, and to make Scotland a more environmentally-friendly country.
That is why we consulted widely to establish where and, as importantly, how we can best use the Games to benefit and leave a lasting legacy to all areas of Scotland. That included how Scotland can benefit from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. That consultation process comprised:
Games Legacy Plan
We have put in place a comprehensive Group Structure comprising internal and external stakeholders to develop a Games Legacy Plan taking account of feedback from the Games legacy consultation process. This will be a national plan that is focussed with realistic ambitions.
We have already produced the Interim Games Legacy Plan. This is the forerunner to what will be the more detailed full Games Legacy Plan which will be developed by that same group structure and launched in Summer 2009.
The interim Plan has health as the unifying theme; has five key underpinning principles; and outlines the seven key legacy programmes we aim to take forward to help deliver a legacy across Scotland from the Glasgow 2014 and London 2012 Games (and other major events). These programmes cover sport; health; education and learning; culture; volunteering; the greener agenda; and business, tourism and skills/employment.