Papers 8 October 2020

South East Locality Community Planning Partnership Thursday 8 October, 2pm, MS Teams Agenda 1. Welcome and introductions 2. Approval of minute and matters arising from meeting of 13 January 2020 (minute attached) 3. Edinburgh Poverty Commission report - Chris Adams, Strategy Manager, CEC 4. Edinburgh Partnership update – Ian Brooke 5. South East Locality Improvement Plan – revised priorities – Andrew Gallacher, Lifelong Learning Service Manager, CEC (slides attached) SOUTH EAST LOCALITY COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP Monday, 13 January 2020 at 2 pm Houldsworth Room, Skills Development Scotland MINUTE Members present Cllr Melanie Main City of Edinburgh Council Sarah Burns City of Edinburgh Council Moyra Burns NHS Lothian David Hepburn Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Rosalind Papworth Skills Development Scotland Ian Brooke Voluntary Sector Peter Carruthers Voluntary Sector Sylvia Baikie Health and Social Care Partnership Stuart Tooley Edinburgh University Willie Black Neighbourhood Network In attendance Andrew McWhirter City of Edinburgh Council Jackie Stewart City of Edinburgh Council Andrew Gallagher City of Edinburgh Council Michele Mulvaney City of Edinburgh Council Apologies None 1 Welcome and apologies As above. 2 Minute of the last meeting The minutes were agreed as an accurate record of the meeting. 3 Co-option Request to co-opt Stuart Tooley, Edinburgh University, as the education sector representative on the LCPP. Decision 1) Agreed to co-opt Stuart Tooley. 4 Nomination of Chair/Vice Chair The Partnership considered the nomination of Chair and Vice Chair. Decision 1) Peter Carruthers agreed as Chair. 2) Sarah Burns agreed as Vice Chair. 5 Governance paper Michele Mulvaney introduced the paper which was approved by the Edinburgh Partnership Board. This set out amendments to the governance arrangements for LCPPs which included the provision for named substitutes, co-chairing and that LCPP meetings would take place in private but could be held in public by exception where this was deemed necessary. Decision 1) To note the changes agreed by the Edinburgh Partnership Board as set out in the paper. 6 Locality Improvement Plan Progress Report Sarah Burns spoke to the paper which provided an update on progress on the LIP. It was noted that the content had been agreed with priority leads and circulated to LCPP members in advance of the Edinburgh Partnership Board. Decision 1) The paper was noted. 7 Locality Improvement Plan Priorities Andrew Gallagher provided a presentation on the development of the revised LIP priorities. Members broke into workshop discussions to consider the proposals. NE LCPP – 30 September 2019 Page 2 8 AOB None. 9 Date of Next Meeting Meetings to be set on a quarterly basis. Noted evening options should be provided and Mondays to be avoided. NE LCPP – 30 September 2019 Page 3 A Just Capital Actions to End Poverty in Edinburgh September 2020 Contents Summary and key messages ....................................................................................................................... 3 Foreword ...................................................................................................................................................10 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................13 Poverty in Edinburgh...............................................................................................................................14 What needs to change? ..........................................................................................................................16 A call to action ........................................................................................................................................17 Actions to End Poverty in Edinburgh ..........................................................................................................19 The right support in the places we live and work .....................................................................................21 Fair work that provides dignity and security ............................................................................................25 A decent home we can afford to live in ...................................................................................................30 Income security that offers a real lifeline ................................................................................................35 Opportunities that drive justice and boost prospects ..............................................................................40 Connections in a city that belongs to us ..................................................................................................44 Equality in our health and wellbeing .......................................................................................................47 Achieving real change ................................................................................................................................51 Passing the baton: End Poverty Edinburgh ..............................................................................................51 A big thank you ..........................................................................................................................................54 Appendix – Meet the Commissioners ........................................................................................................56 2 Summary and key messages The Edinburgh Poverty Commission is an independent group who have been working together since the end of 2018 to define the actions needed to end poverty in Edinburgh. The work of the Commission has been supported by the Edinburgh Partnership, and The City of Edinburgh Council. Funding for our research activity was provided by the Scottish Government and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This is our final report. Following what we believe to be the most extensive process of inquiry into poverty, its causes, consequences and solutions ever undertaken in a Scottish local authority, this report is a call to action to everyone in the city: the City of Edinburgh Council, the Edinburgh Partnership, the Scottish and UK Governments, the third sector, business, communities and citizens of Edinburgh. Key messages • Poverty in Edinburgh is real and damaging, but it can be solved. By implementing the calls to action we make in this report, we think the city can set a course to end poverty in Edinburgh by 2030. • We have identified six areas for action – fair work, a decent home, income security, opportunities to progress, connections, health and wellbeing - and one cultural challenge that should serve as a lens through which each action should be approached. • To end poverty in the city, the single biggest transformation Edinburgh could achieve would be to make the experience of seeking help less painful, less complex, more humane, and more compassionate. We call on City of Edinburgh Council to lead in the design and delivery of a new relationship based way of working for all public services in Edinburgh. • There is no solution to poverty in Edinburgh without resolving the city’s housing and homelessness crisis. We call on the Scottish Government, as an urgent priority, to ensure the city has the right funding and support to meet its social housing expansion needs. • This report marks the end of the work of this Edinburgh Poverty Commission, but only the beginning of a movement that needs to take root to create an Edinburgh without poverty. As a legacy, we have helped to develop End Poverty Edinburgh - a new independent group of residents with first-hand experience of living on a low income and their allies who want to be part of shaping the solutions. As a group, they will work to raise awareness and understanding of poverty, influence decisions, and hold the city to account for ending poverty in Edinburgh. 3 Poverty in Edinburgh In the wealthiest city in Scotland, we estimate that almost 78,000 people are living in relative poverty, representing some 15% of the population and as many as 1 in 5 children. The majority of people living in poverty in Edinburgh are of working age, in employment, living in rented accommodation, with the highest rates experienced by families with children. Lone parents, nine in ten of them women, disabled people, carers and Black and Minority Ethnic families are more likely to be in poverty than others in the city. Such families live in every area of the city, in every type of neighbourhood. Two-thirds of people in poverty in Edinburgh do not live in those areas commonly considered as ‘deprived’. Very often these families will be affected by physical and mental health burdens related directly tothe poverty they experience. Throughout the course of our work we have heard, perhaps more than anything else, of the intolerable toll living in poverty takes on people’s health and wellbeing. People in poverty told us they are exhausted physically and emotionally, having to make impossible decisions about living costs;of the struggle to find support, the stigma and shamed felt being judged by others, and of feeling trapped in a system that does not care about them. What needs to change? As we have listened to people’s experiences, we have recognised that the change required to end poverty in Edinburgh is as much about changing the day to day experiences, connections and relationships between individuals and organisations as concrete change

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