APPENDIX 1

Establishing and supporting PB Citizens Panels 2018-19

In 2018 City Council (GCC) launched a new strategy to give £1m to four areas of the city and to a community of interest via Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) to test out PB, with a Council-led PB working group overseeing the work in partnership with third sector and national PB organisations. As the Council’s overarching aim for PB is to reduce poverty and inequality, the four Wards chosen were some of the most deprived in Glasgow, with priorities for funding and community engagement reflecting local need. Calton (Ward 9, covering Bridgeton, , Calton, , Gallowgate and ) would therefore focus on child poverty; Canal (Ward 16, that includes Cadder, , , Milton, Parkhouse, , ) on work and employment; (Ward 6, comprising Craigton, , Pollokshields, and ) to address issues of black and minority ethnic population experience, and (Ward 3) to support work for, and engage with, young people in the Ward areas of Crookston, , , , , , and . To provide additional local capacity, GCC contracted third sector anchor organisations in the four Wards to identify and support local residents interested in joining Citizen’s Panels to help lead the process. Any resident wishing to participate in a Citizens’ Panel as a Volunteer, were encouraged and supported to do so. The anchor organisations were also charged with ensuring that barriers to participation were reduced as much as possible through providing childcare, transport and other supports as needed to participate, on a voluntary basis, in the creation and development of the Citizens’ Panels.

The North West Glasgow Voluntary Sector Network [NWGVSN) were given the role in Canal Ward; in Pollokshields it is Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) providing their expertise; in Pollok, local youth organisation SWAMP took on the brief, and in Calton Ward, the Child Poverty Action Group in (CPAG) led the work.

In addition, a community of interest with the Glasgow Disability Alliance was funded to support people with disabilities to get involved in development and delivery of the PB process to ensure people with disabilities could: 1. Take part in the Citizens’ Panels to develop the PB process and criteria; 2. Submit funding proposals to the PB programme; 3. Vote at PB events either online or at PB events; and 4. Get involved in mainstream PB discussions. Additional support was provided by Young Movers to ensure young people across the city had equal opportunity to develop their skills and experience of PB. GCC set up information sessions with the input of partner agencies, supported by anchor organisations. The University of Glasgow, IRISS, Glasgow Homelessness Network and others provided expertise to help shape the successful PB roll-out across the Wards.

The PB pilot projects worked closely with officials to deliver an inclusive, thorough process that allocated funding to meet local need. All projects used a variety of methods to reach into local communities, to raise interest in PB and its

1 potential outcomes to individuals and to organisations who wished to apply for funding, and to identify those residents willing to get involved as part of the Citizen’s Panel that shaped the process.

After a busy year engaging communities, supporting the Citizens’ Panels and working together to develop the Ward-based PB process and criteria, the early indications on the level of community involvement in the PB process are encouraging as detailed in table 1 below.

Table 1

Ward/Interest Panel Members Volunteer Hours Community Engagements 25 2,000 3040 Calton 15 780 198 Canal 12 1,152 380 Pollokshields 22 TBC TBC Young Movers 10 260 10 GDA 70 1442 30 Total 154 5,634 3,479

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