1. Community Planning in Scotland
Update and overview of portal

2. What is Community Planning?
“Community planning is a key driver for public service reform at local level. It brings together local public services and the communities they serve. It provides a focus for joint working, driven by strong shared leadership, directed towards distinctive local circumstances. And this focused joint working provides powerful potential to address often deep-rooted causes of inequalities, and to use preventative approaches to manage future demands on crisis intervention services”. Community Empowerment Scotland (Act) 2015 Draft Statutory Guidance

3. Effective community planning …….
is about how public bodies work together and with the local community to plan for, resource and provide or secure the provision of services which improve local outcomes in a local authority area, to reduce inequalities
brings together the collective talents and resources of local public services and communities to drive positive change locally
requires local statutory community planning partners to provide strong shared leadership for community planning
focuses on where partners’ collective efforts can add most value for their local communities, with particular emphasis on reducing inequalities
makes the most of collective resources to deliver change where it matters most for local communities
is committed to achieving its ambitions and strives for continuous improvement

4. Who are statutory CP partners?
From (2003 Act)
To (2015 Act)
Only 6 statutory partners – local authority, NHS Board, Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Scottish Enterprise/Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Regional Transport Partnership
Expanded list of statutory partner bodies – IJB, Historic Environment Scotland, National Park authority, Regional College Board of Management, Regional strategic body under the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, SEPA, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Sports Council, Skills Development Scotland, VisitScotland
Duties on local authority alone to maintain and facilitate CP.
Promotes shared leadership and governance. Places governance duties on a defined set of partners (5 of the 6 from 2003 Act) , to facilitate CP and take reasonable steps to ensure CPP operates effectively.

5. Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act
Common duty on statutory partners to work together to improve outcomes through Community Planning
LOIP (overall priorities for improvement) and locality plans (targeting communities who experience the poorest outcomes)
Shared leadership and governance - Duty on all partners to make community planning work; to contribute the resources necessary to deliver the LOIP; to build the LOIP into their own plans
Duty on all partners to support & resource community participation
Reducing inequalities in outcomes
Prevention and early intervention

6. IS support for CPPs Community Planning Outcomes Profile
Data and analysis
Self-assessment and improvement planning
CPP Board development
Organisational development
Support with place/ locality working
Knowledge Hub
Tailored and responsive support – e.g. facilitation
LOIP support (with NSS and NHS Health Scotland)

7. Background to Portal
Audit Scotland Community Planning overview 2016 recommendations:
The Scottish Government and COSLA should work with the IS and others to establish a locally tailored national programme of improvement support for CPPs
The Scottish Government and COSLA should establish arrangements through which good practice within individual CPPs can be identified and shared

8. Background to Portal
Contacted improvement agencies to complete template
Tested portal with sample of Community Planning Managers and improvement agencies
Go-live: end of week
Future development:
CPP innovation exchange?
CPPs sharing resources, tools and support?
Online submission of support requests and better coordination of support by national improvement agencies?
Signposting support for health and social care?