North Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership

Engaging communities to co-produce Locality Partnerships: a Scottish First

Dr Audrey Sutton, North Ayrshire Council

North Ayrshire Locality Partnerships

• 5 mainland localities and Arran• First meetings held Sept 16

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Partnership Prevention

Performance

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Locality Planning and our Communities

Q: Why?

A: Fair for All

• Creating equity

• Building and re-building a sense of community

• Appropriate decision-making at a local level

• A better relationship between those who deliver and receive services

• Maximising the knowledge, talents and experiences of local people to make things better

• Making the most of the resources we actually have…

Locality Planning with our communities

Rethinking our culture: from engagement to partnership

North Ayrshire model: co-design and co-production

Place making

Local democracy

Working with our Communities

Locality Partnership development has two main dimensions in North Ayrshire:

• Designing how we work together; and • Agreeing our priorities.

But first we (NACPP) reconsidered our relationship with our communities, and re-learned how to engage, listen and genuinely consult.

Engagement to Partnership in North Ayrshire:Our culture and our journey

• Social networks

• Social participation

• Community cohesion

• Community empowerment

From bonding to bridging

Ensuring continued good practice in engagement

Community Engagement Reference Group of CPP:

Ensure best practice (National Standards for Community Engagement ) in

Locality Partnerships in a range of engagement methods

Maximum involvement by third sector organisations and community groups

in the locality planning approach through “participation by experience”

Monitor the CPP operational plan and Locality Plans to ensure that they are

addressing inequalities with full cross sector participation

Provide a forum for the discussion and development of the agenda of the

Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) 2015

CPP engagement and events calendar

Locality Planning with our communities

Rethinking our culture: from engagement to partnership

North Ayrshire model: co-design and co-production

Place making

Local democracy

North Ayrshire Co-Production Model: Locality Partnerships

Considerations:

Evidence base – Areas

of Family Resilience

Transparent ways of

making decisions and

allocating some

resources

New ways of working

with communities

Establishing confidence

and trust

Key roles of Partnership

Chair, Senior Officer and

community officers in

shaping direction and in

constantly referencing

statutory roles of key

partners

Early Proofs of

Concept: HSCP Locality

Plans

Participatory

Budgeting

Phase 1: Define the issues with partners: respond, influence...

Phase 2: Design the solutions with partners: identify the priorities, respond, develop solutions, evaluate…

Phase 3: Deliver the solutions with partners: develop improvements, lead on initiatives, report on outcomes…

NB: Localities will identify where they are operating on the continuum according

to their capacity, confidence and the subject or priority

they are addressing.

Membership of Locality Partnerships

• Locality Plan

• Engage with CPP Board

• Influence and improve delivery of some services provided within the Locality

• Inform the work of Elected Members within the Locality

• Develop and implement Participatory Budgeting

• Listen to, consult and represent local communities in the Locality

• Work with young people in Locality Youth Fora

Functions of a Locality Partnership: an ongoing process

Functions of a Locality Partnership: a work in progress

• Support activities that address local issues

• Grow community capacity, empowerment and volunteering

• Support Community Councils in aligning their work to the Locality Plan

• To name new streets within the Locality

• To administer the disbursement grants to local organisations

• Respond to consultations on matters affecting the Locality

• Link with HSCP localities

Locality Planning with our communities

Rethinking our culture: from engagement to partnership

North Ayrshire model: co-design and co-production

Place making

Local democracy

Place Standard

• Used at Locality Partnership development sessions

• Useful baseline for the partnerships with AfRs

• Allows comparison across Localities

• Tool for bringing members together to consider local issues

• Potential for use with smaller areas/demographics/communities of interest

Charrettes

Go Garnock, Three Towns and Cumbrae

Scottish Government funding

Purpose:

• To integrate communities within new Locality Partnership model

• To align community and spatial planning.

• Learning is contributing to overall knowledge of and plans for place development

Locality Planning with our communities

Rethinking our culture: from engagement to partnership

North Ayrshire model: co-design and co-production

Place making

Local democracy

Community Council Review

• Community Councils have continuing status with Scottish Government and communities

• Requirement in North Ayrshire to re-establish

their role and profile

• Review of community councils to include young people and to establish their role vis-à-vis Locality Partnerships

• 10 now re-established, with some contested elections.

Locality Planning Process

• June 2016: Community events

• September 2016: First Locality Partnership meetings

• December 2016: Second Locality Partnership meetings

• By April 2017: Locality priorities identified for Locality Plans

• August 2017: North Ayrshire Locality Conference

• Variety of approaches emerging across localities – as planned.

Where are we?

Locality Plans bring together:

• The priorities from the Health and Social Care Partnership Locality Forums

• Local Economic Plans• Relevant sections of the Local Development Plan• Actions to address local inequalities agreed by the

Locality Partnerships • Priorities within the CLD Strategic Plans at locality

level

Locality Plans and Fair for All

Looking at the issues arising out of Place Standard tool through an “inequalities lens”.

Irvine• Social isolation - all ages

• Low level mental health and wellbeing - young people.

• Musculoskeletal issues

North Coast• Social isolation - older people

• Young people’s - stress & anxiety

• Musculoskeletal disorders

Three Towns• Care at home options -older

people

• Mental health and wellbeing and social isolation of young men

Kilwinning• GP sessions in nursing home• Occupational Therapy advice in local

pharmacy• Networking event

Arran• Transport

• Reduce social isolation.

• Improve support -complex care needs

Garnock Valley• Young people’s - health & wellbeing• Low level mental health & wellbeing • Social isolation -all ages• Musculoskeletal disorders

NAHSCP Locality Priorities

NACPP Locality Priorities

Progress to date

Participatory Budgeting

We have successfully developed and delivered a range of PB events and approaches:

• 6 community and 5 youth Locality PB events with c. £104,000 was awarded at community Locality events and Phase One £23,858 at youth Locality events.

• Mental health event with over 200 applications for £60,000

• Ground breaking national pilot, working with Young Scot: over 5,000 young people from North Ayrshire visited Young Scot’s online voting platform to decide how £61,803 was allocated to youth projects in their local area: c. 130 applications

• Further round of events planned to align with Locality priorities

Progress to date

• Cafe Solace in Garnock Valley

• Nursing Home pilot in Kilwinning

• Mental Health Community Connectors

• Specification for low level mental wellness service

• Credit Union outlet

• See and Treat Centre (3 Towns)

• Strengthening links with LPPs

What’s working?

• Sharing priorities across CPP and HSCP e.g. North Coast

• Shared understanding of roles and strengths of CPP and HSCP locality forums

• Shared training of officers and community partners: PB and engagement and consultation

• Participatory Budgeting community events

• Place Standard rapid appraisals

• Additional prioritisation workshops

• Developing CLD Strategic Locality Plans with partners

• Developing cohesion and maturity of Locality Partnerships

• Arran Locality Partnership is successfully drawing upon work being undertaken by Arran Economic Forum

• Community Council representation

Innovation

• Consultation Institute national award

• HMIE CLD Inspection recognition

• Cosla Award – currently long listed

• Good practice events and conferences

• Continuing to develop a real, cohesive partnership approach across communities post local government elections

• Parity of esteem among all elected, community and CPP partners in Locality Partnerships: contributions equally valued

• Increased focus on creating equity

• Increased engagement with the wider community: Participation by Experience –involving more people and organisations

• Key partners to contribute by providing ‘expert contributions’ on each identified priority: Participation by Experience

• Joint meetings between CPP and HSCP chairs to share and align priorities

• Agenda refinement and optimum accommodation and timing of meetings

What needs improved?

Next steps

Budget investments to support Fair for All

• Community Investment Fund: c. £3m: to support locality priorities• Community Empowerment investment• Sustainable Community Food Plan• Poverty Challenge Fund• HSCP Challenge Fund• Mainstreaming PB: environmental budgets• Community PB to support locality priorities• Youth PB • Poverty Truth Commission

Thank you