Transcript The Scottish Experience - Anthony Clark, Audit Scotland

Community planning:
Turning ambition into action
Antony Clark, Audit Scotland
The presentation
• Community Planning in Scotland
• What is it trying to do?
• The A, B, C, of making community planning work
• Where is it really making a difference?
• Areas of ongoing challenge
• What does this mean for Northern Ireland?
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Community Planning in Scotland
2001
Community Planning Task Force
2003
Local Government in Scotland Act
2007
Concordat and introduction of SOAs
2011
Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services
2012
Statement of Ambition for Community Planning
2013
Improving community planning in Scotland
2014
Community Planning: turning ambition into action
2015
Community Empowerment Act
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So what is Community Planning
trying to do?
• Plan for place
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Show community leadership
Understand community needs and
wishes
Map local assets and resources
• Organise for outcomes
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Agree shared improvement priorities
Effective governance structures
Share resources
Align planning and performance
management
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• Involve communities
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Engage with local people
Treat them as a resource and
asset
Mobilise the third sector
• Drive public service reform:
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Promote prevention
Address inequalities
Deliver integrated local
services
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The A, B, C, of making community
planning work
What kind of things do you need?
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Shared leadership and trust
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Shared and aligned resources
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Jointly owned vision for change
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Community engagement and
involvement
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Political engagement and
support
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Good relationships with
businesses and the third sector
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Effective performance
management
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Willingness to change
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Clear roles and responsibilities
Good governance and an
ability to challenge each other
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Where is it really making a difference
in Scotland?
Everywhere, up to a point.
But here are some practical examples:
• Glasgow – a real focus on things that matter to local people
• North Ayrshire – multi-agency problem solving
• West Lothian – co-located, integrated public services
• Scottish Borders – jobs and sustainable communities
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Health inequality in Glasgow
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The focus of Glasgow CPP
A clear focus on the major challenges facing local
communities
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North Ayrshire CPP
Multi-agency problem solving:
Phase 1
- weekend of intensive
enforcement activity
Phase 2
– community
engagement and
visual audit
(‘walkabout’)
Phase 4
– lifetime
management
Phase 3
– diversionary activity
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West Lothian CPP
‘Joint working is how we do things around here’
Innovative joined-up services (partnership centres, co-location
and Job Centre Plus)
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Scottish Borders CPP
Addressing the challenges of an ageing population in a
low wage poorly connected economy
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What’s the overall direction?
• There is real energy and drive across Scotland to improve
Community Planning
• Partners and CPPs:
o Understand each other, and their areas better now
o Know what resources they have to improve outcomes
o Recognise the importance of prevention
o Are engaging better with communities
o Have started to join-up complex national reform agendas
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But, much more still to do…
• Leadership, scrutiny and challenge remain weak
• Many CPPs are still not clear about what they are trying to
achieve
• Confusion over local or national focus of community planning
• Competing priorities and accountabilities have not gone away
• There is no framework for assessing the performance and pace
of improvement of CPPs
• More focused and targeted improvement support is needed
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Implications for Northern Ireland
• Rare opportunity to design outcomes and well-being in to new
arrangements
• Leadership is key, but it’s about more than individuals
• Governance and accountability structures do matter
• Clarity about national vs. local is essential
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast!
• Some tricky issues:
o investing in prevention against backdrop of reducing resources
o reconciling long-term outcomes approach with legitimate
concerns about mainstream public services
o community empowerment?
o measuring and reporting progress against outcomes
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