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What are we trying to do?

How can Community Planning Partnerships learn and benefit from the Experience of Social Inclusion Partnerships? Festival Business Centre, 150 Brand Street, Glasgow G51 1DH Tel: 0141 419 1690 Fax: 0141 314 0026 Web: www.scr.communitiesscotland.gov.uk. What are we trying to do?.

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What are we trying to do?

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  1. How can Community Planning Partnerships learn and benefit from the Experience of Social Inclusion Partnerships?Festival Business Centre, 150 Brand Street, Glasgow G51 1DHTel: 0141 419 1690 Fax: 0141 314 0026 Web: www.scr.communitiesscotland.gov.uk

  2. What are we trying to do? Closing the Opportunity Gap “promote the community regeneration of the most deprived neighbourhoods, through improvements by 2008 in employability, education, health, access to local services and quality of the local environment”

  3. How does the SCR contribute? Delivering support, supporting delivery. • Developing skills • Introducing New Approaches • Improving Practice

  4. Why Focus on This? • SIP programme a major investment • Capture lessons • Build on experience • Support SIP integration into CPPs

  5. Headlines from SIP evaluations • Successful in drawing together communities, partners and money • Effective in promoting community engagement • Good at project delivery and in developing new approaches • Board commitment and capacity is essential • Dedicated support team is an important factor to success . • Need to focus more on working at a strategic rather than a project level. • Long term private sector involvement minimal • Evidence of impact on mainstream budgets is mixed

  6. Leadership and Governance Partnership and Joint Working Community Engagement Learning from Experience Closing the Gap What Issues Were Being Examined?

  7. Support ROA implementation Enable strong partnerships Ensure effective community engagement Encourage continuous improvement Stimulate new approaches to learning What Relevance to CPPs?

  8. Launch of materials early 2006 Package of 5 CDs covering each theme Available to all CPPs Possible support Publication and Dissemination

  9. Partnership Working Skills Community Engagement Mainstreaming Equality Sustainable Development Thematic issues: Building strong, safe communities Getting people back into work Improving health Raising educational attainment Engaging young people Support for Continuous Improvement

  10. Community Planning Partnerships learning from SIPs Andrew Fyfe 24 November 2005

  11. Outline of presentation • The project • The main lessons • Description of the learning materials • The ‘cluttered’ field • Next steps

  12. The project aim • ‘to develop and implement a dissemination programme to support Community Planning Partnerships learn from the experience of Social Inclusion Partnerships’

  13. Some cautions • People are not wanting to look backward – CPPs are different to SIPs – need to engage partnership board members • This is a very ‘cluttered’ area • CPPs are at very different stages – and learning is being squeezed in the face of heavy agendas

  14. What we have done • Reviewed all 27 SIP evaluations from 2003/04 • Identified ‘good’ practice • Discussed learning methods with a number of CPP board members • Liaised with others involved in CPP development • Prepared andtested five sets of learning materials

  15. The themes • Leadership and governance • Partnership and joint working • Community engagement • Systems and processes to support learning • Impacts in terms of Closing the Gap

  16. The materials • A Learning Point • Case studies • An assessment checklist …. • ….leading to an action plan • A facilitators’ pack

  17. The Main Lessons

  18. Leadership and governance • Effective and dynamic leadership • Governance and legal structures • Composition and membership • Decision making and delegation • Staffing and employment

  19. Partnership and Joint Working • Equal status for partners • Culture • Collective responsibility • Training and support • Engaging communities and private sector • Partnership ‘overload’

  20. Community engagement • Wide range of approaches – non-traditional methods • Engaging ‘harder to reach’ groups • Resources and dedicated staff for community capacity building • Clarity of ‘boundaries’ of engagement

  21. Systems and processes to support learning • Clarity about monitoring; ‘formative’ and ‘summative’ evaluations • Formative’ evaluations are important • Integrate learning into routine planning and work programmes • Importance of study visits and exchanges

  22. Impacts in terms of Closing the Gap • Quality of baseline information …. and regular production of data at local level • Use of mainstream resources in regeneration areas • Focus on a manageable number of objectives

  23. A description of the materials

  24. Learning Point

  25. Case studies

  26. Assessment checklist

  27. Action plan

  28. Facilitators’ notes

  29. The ‘cluttered’ field

  30. The ‘cluttered’ field • Community Planning Practitioners Group (and, eventually, Champions Group) • Improvement Service • Audit Scotland • Community Voices • Partners in Regeneration • SURF Forum

  31. Next steps

  32. Next Steps • Finalise all materials – December • Prepare CDs and post on Communities Scotland web-site • SCR to consider practical support to CPPs for a range of learning materials

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