Culture and human rights join vision

Culture and human rights have been included in a vision for national wellbeing in Scotland for the first time.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launched the government’s new national performance framework at an international conference in Edinburgh.

The framework includes 11 national outcomes that set out a vision for Scotland and 81 indicators which will be used to track and measure progress towards achieving them.

Ms Sturgeon said: “The Scottish Government wants Scotland to be the best place possible to live, work, grow up and study in.

“This new national performance framework includes 11 key outcomes that the whole of Scotland can get behind and has been developed in collaboration with other parties and all aspects of society, including public and private sectors, voluntary organisations, businesses and communities.”

Welcoming the focus on culture, cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop said: “The inclusion, for the first time, of the new cultural national outcome in the National Performance Framework is of immense importance and reflects the growing recognition of the strategic significance of culture in Scotland.

“It will also foster better government working and encourage other policy areas to consider how their work can help to meet the ambitions and aims of the developing culture strategy and cultural outcomes.”

Judith Robertson, chairwoman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, said: “The inclusion, for the first time, of a national outcome focused on human rights is a significant and welcome development in how we measure our progress as a country.”

The First Minister outlined her vision in Edinburgh.