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South West Locality Improvement Plan Disadvantage 1 2 Contents Page Contents 2 Introduction 3 Context 4 South West Locality 5 Engaging with our communities 8 Locality-wide priorities 9 Small area priorities 23 How we will measure success 32 Further information and contacts 33 South West Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan October 2017 3 Introduction Welcome from the South West Locality across South West Edinburgh, while also and deliver better services which meet the Leadership Team focusing on smaller areas where there is a needs of the people who use them. higher rate of people experiencing The South West Locality Improvement Plan disadvantage. Partners in the South West Locality sets out the rationale for community Leadership Team are: planning arrangements in South West The community is at the heart of this plan, • The City of Edinburgh Council Edinburgh: who we are, how we work and through 2016/17 we have worked to • Police Scotland together, the key priorities and why they are develop existing community plans. We • NHS Lothian important. have attempted to ensure more effective • Health and Social Care Partnership partnership working, so we involve • Scottish Fire and Rescue Service The plan will help to achieve better communities in a greater range of • Edinburgh College outcomes for our communities by participation. • Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce addressing local priorities. It focuses on • Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ people’s needs and promotes our work to The implementation of the Community Council reduce social and economic inequalities. Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 has • Scottish Enterprise This plan is an agreement between the placed new legal duties on community • Skills Development Scotland communities of the South West and local planning partnerships and all public service providers that sets out how we work services delivered in Edinburgh. We want • Members of the South West and together to target our resources in the most to build on these duties to improve how we Pentlands Voluntary Forum effective way and highlights how we will deliver community plans, more effective review and report on progress, allowing us community engagement, and greater to realign priorities as needed. community participation. The plan considers the entire locality, The plan brings communities closer setting out the most important issues together with local service providers to plan South West Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan October 2017 4 Context Community planning is the process by The Community Empowerment (Scotland) which councils and other public bodies Act 2015 also changed community planning work with local people, businesses and in Scotland. voluntary groups. By doing so, partners aim to plan and deliver better services, The Act gives local people more say in how improving the lives of people who live in the public services are planned, designed and local community. delivered. The Act requires public bodies to: In Edinburgh, the community planning • identify and improve outcomes in the partnership brings together public service geographical areas which experience providers, third sector organisations and the greatest inequality the community, collectively known as the • prepare and publish Locality Edinburgh Partnership. Improvement Plans to deliver better outcomes on the agreed priorities Over the last ten years, communities have • review and report publicly on progress identified their own priorities through Local and revise and update the plans as Community Plans working with service appropriate. providers to improve their communities. The most recent Local Community Plans ran from 2014 – 2017. During that time, organisations changed to working in four localities in the city, to manage their services within the same boundaries. South West Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan October 2017 5 South West Locality Wards Sighthill/Gorgie Colinton/Fairmilehead Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart Pentland Hills Community Council areas Ratho and District Balerno Currie Sighthill, Broomhouse and Parkhead Colinton Juniper Green Longstone Fairmilehead Firrhill Craiglockhart industrial, retail and leisure facilities and Merchiston green spaces. Gorgie/Dalry Population Hutchison/Chesser South West has areas with high levels of Stenhouse, Saughton Mains and 114,077 affluence as well as areas which are Whitson amongst the most economically and Wester Hailes socially disadvantaged in the city. Longstone The South West accounts for 22% of Around 90% of residents in South West Edinburgh’s overall population. It is a very Edinburgh are satisfied with their diverse area, comprising a range of neighbourhood as a place to live, which is housing types and a mixture of commercial, slightly higher than the city average. 6 Satisfaction is particularly high (89-98%) for South West Edinburgh also has some of comparison Sighthill/Gorgie had a three out of the four wards with the densest and most sparsely populated population density of over 4500 people per Sighthill/Gorgie lower at 80%. areas within Edinburgh. km2, much of it concentrated in flats closer It has a high proportion of council tenants to the city centre. and a lower than average rate of private In 2015 the Pentland Hills Ward had less sector renting. Owner occupancy rates than 400 people per km2, mostly remain similar to the city average, though concentrated in the villages of Balerno, they vary across the locality. Currie, Ratho and Juniper Green. By Challenges 2,650 2037 expected In the next 20 years, South West Edinburgh is expected to see the houses population number of older people grow, larger than Edinburgh as a whole. currently The population is set to increase by 18% by 2037 (+21,000 planned 135,917 In particular, the number of people aged over 85 is expected to increase by almost 120% in the next twenty years. This equates to a rise from roughly 2,300 in 2017 to a projected 5,000 in 2037. The level of economic deprivation also provides a challenge. The South West, as a whole, has a slightly higher rate of income deprivation than Edinburgh as a whole, with 9.8% of people in the South West deemed income deprived according to the 2016 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). Left: South West population projection – age groups % increase people), lower than the Edinburgh-wide rate (+22%). South West Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan October 2017 7 Amongst areas of the highest deprivation1 in the South West, the The proportion of people claiming work related benefits varies rate of income deprivation is 19.8%, compared to 5.2% of the between the four South West wards, from a low of 4.9% of working South West population that do not live in one of these areas. Child age residents in Colinton/ Fairmilehead to a high of 12.0% in poverty in South West Edinburgh is the second highest of all four Sighthill/Gorgie. The overall rate for the locality is 8.1%, which is localities in Edinburgh, with one in five children living in low income the second highest amongst the four localities and compares to a households. city rate of 7.7%. 1 * Oxgangs, Wester Hailes, Broomhouse/Saughton, Daly/Fountainbridge NB Information for wards relates to pre-2017 boundaries. South West Edinburgh Locality Improvement Plan October 2017 8 Engaging with our communities In Edinburgh, community planning partners Phase 1 have realigned their operations to four The results of the two phases were To develop a set of South West priorities localities. Each locality has a leadership presented to workstream leads in summer the community were consulted at team that brings together senior officers 2017. We then developed locality and small Neighbourhood Partnership meetings and from the Council, Police Scotland, NHS area priorities using the responses, along other events throughout the locality. Lothian, Edinburgh College and the third with findings from other recent partner Participants were asked what changes they sector. consultations and socio-economic data hoped to see in the future and the initial analysis. Their role is to deliver services in a steps they thought were necessary to coordinated way, and to ensure the achieve this. Implementation community is at the heart of how we We also issued a community wide The resulting priorities are set out under develop local services. questionnaire online and through libraries five workstreams and four small areas. Services have been divided into five asking people what they would like to see In both cases outcomes and actions are workstreams reporting to the leadership South West Edinburgh look like in the grouped by their workstream: team. Each workstream groups together future. There was also a specific • Employability operational managers from different questionnaire designed for local young • Health and Social Care organisations, allowing them to build people. • Safer Communities relationships and use local data to deliver • Children and Young People Phase 2 on locality priorities. • Team Around Place This was focused on developing priorities The main aim is to make sure services are for specific communities experiencing These include actions and possible delivered in a coordinated way between higher levels of deprivation. measures. These measures, along with relevant partners in line with community Once these areas were identified partners timescales and resources to deliver the priorities. Crucial to achieving this is agreed to speak with service users and actions are set out in accompanying work ensuring partnerships are effective and the local people from these areas to plans. An overview of this is
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