Glasgow leaders are to commission a demographic study and financial survey as part of future planning for the city's dwindling Jewish community.

Eighteen people attended a meeting hosted by the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council on Monday at which there was also agreement on undertaking a fact-finding mission to see how other communities had responded to changing needs. In addition, community members would be canvassed on "facilities they wish to see and how they would like them to be provided".

However, the decision to make "a detailed assessment" of the Caplan report - a vision for the community compiled in the mid-1990s - perplexed a leading Glasgow Jewish personality who was not invited to the meeting. He observed that looking for lessons from a 15-year-old report hardly constituted forward thinking and also highlighted the non-attendance of a number of those invited to the meeting.