Single Outcome Agreement for Dundee 2013-2017
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SINGLE OUTCOME AGREEMENT FOR DUNDEE 2013-2017 3 Macintosh HD:Users:katherine:Desktop:SOA:SOA.docx OUR VISION FOR DUNDEE Through Our Partnership, Dundee: ◊ will have a strong and sustainable city economy that will provide jobs for the people of Dundee, retain more graduates and make the city a magnet for new talent ◊ will offer real choice and opportunity in a city that has tackled the root causes of social and economic exclusion, creating a community which is healthy, safe, confident, educated and empowered; ◊ will be a vibrant and attractive city with an excellent quality of life where people choose to live, learn, work and visit; This is the Dundee Partnership's Single Outcome Agreement for 2013-2017 and it can only be delivered in partnership. It demands that each of us plays our part to the full, but crucially, that we share the commitment to work together to achieve the change we need in Dundee. Statutory Partners: ____________________________ ________________________ Dundee City Council Scottish Government ________________________ ________________________ _______________________ NHS Tayside Police Scotland Scottish Fire and Rescue Service ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Skills Development Scotland Scottish Enterprise TACTRAN Supporting Partners: ________________________ ________________________ _______________________ Dundee Third Sector Interface Chamber of Commerce Dundee College ________________________ ________________________ _______________________ University of Dundee University of Abertay Tayside Community Justice Authority ________________________ Job Centre Plus Single Outcome Agreement for Dundee 2013-2017 4 Macintosh HD:Users:katherine:Desktop:SOA:SOA.docx Contents Page No 1. Introduction 7 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 Our Vision 7 1.3 Strategic Priorities 7 1.4 Governance and Delivering Better Outcomes 10 1.5 Developing in Partnership 11 1.6 Performance Management 12 1.7 A Prevention Plan for Dundee 12 1.8 Structure of the SOA for Dundee 2013-17 14 2. Integrated City Profile 16 2.1 Population 18 2.2 Economic Recovery and Growth 18 2.3 Outcomes for Older People 20 2.4 Poverty 23 2.5 Early Years 25 2.6 Health Inequalities 28 2.7 Safer and Stronger Communities, and Reducing Offending 31 2.8 Environment 35 2.9 Transport 37 3. Cross-cutting Priorities 39 3.1. Local Community Planning and Community Engagement 39 3.2. Fairness and Inequalities 41 3.3. Mental Wellbeing and the Equally Well Test Site 43 3.4. Substance Misuse and the Dundee Alcohol and Drug Partnership 45 3.5. Equality and Diversity 49 4. Dundee Outcomes 52 Dundee Outcome 1 • 52 Dundee will be an internationally recognised city at the heart of a vibrant region with more and better employment opportunities for our people. • Dundee Outcome 2 58 Our people will be better educated and skilled within a city renowned for learning and culture. • Dundee Outcome 3 64 Our children will be safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected responsible and included. • Dundee Outcome 4 70 People in Dundee will have improved physical health and mental well-being and will experience fewer health inequalities. • Dundee Outcome 5 77 People in Dundee are able to live independently and access support when they need it. • Dundee Outcome 6 83 Our communities will be safe and feel safe. • Dundee Outcome 7 91 Dundee will be a fair and socially inclusive city. • Dundee Outcome 8 96 Our people will live in strong, popular and attractive communities. • Dundee Outcome 9 100 Our communities will have a high quality and accessible local services and facilities. • Dundee Outcome 10 104 Our people will live in a low carbon, sustainable city. APPENDIX A: Ward Level Analysis of SIMD 2012 110 APPENDIX B: Dundee Outcomes and relationship to National Performance 130 Framework & Policy Priorities Section One - Introduction 1.1 INTRODUCTION This is the second Single Outcome Agreement for Dundee produced by the Dundee Partnership which is the vehicle for community planning in the city. The Dundee Partnership brings together the public, voluntary, academic and private sectors to work alongside communities to improve all aspects of life in Dundee. The Single Outcome Agreement for Dundee 2013-17 represents the shared aspirations of the Dundee Partnership for the next four years. It builds on a firm foundation created by the strength of our partnership-working over many years and promises renewed effort to achieve better outcomes for people who live in and come to the city. 1.2 OUR VISION The Partnership's vision for Dundee remains as relevant today as it was when it framed the first community plan in 2011. With its focus on jobs and the economy, social inclusion and quality of life, it captures the broad agenda the Partnership must address if it is to enable all aspects of the life of the city to flourish. The Partnership acknowledges that, over the last ten years, the economic prospects of Dundee have improved dramatically. Indeed it now stands on the cusp of a scale of economic regeneration which occurs once in a generation or longer. The potential impact of securing offshore renewables manufacturing and the V&A at Dundee can be genuinely transformational and these will build on the city's strengths in Life Sciences, Digital Media and Creative Industries. At the same time, however, the levels of poverty, deprivation, substance misuse in the city persist. Over the next four years our challenge will be to achieve greater fairness in the city by ensuring people from our community regeneration areas are able to benefit from developments in Dundee and support people even as they experience the impact of welfare reform, the difficult economic climate and ongoing inequalities. 1.3 STRATEGIC PRIORITIES This single outcome agreement is built upon a series of the Dundee Outcomes which are adapted from, and deliver upon, the National Performance Framework for Scotland. The Partnership welcomes the National Community Planning Group’s recent identification of key priorities “…where the aim should be to achieve transformational, not incremental, performance improvement,” which are: • Economic recovery and growth; • Employment; • Early years; • Safe and stronger communities, and reducing offending; • Health inequalities and physical activity; and • Outcomes for older people There is a strong and direct relationship between these priorities and the Dundee Outcomes which were shaped to merge national and local priorities and thereby ensure that in meeting the needs of Dundee and its people, the Partnership is making a significant contribution to the economic and social success of Scotland. 1. Dundee will be an internationally recognised city at the heart of a vibrant region with more and better employment opportunities for our people. 2. Our people will be better educated and skilled within a city renowned for learning and culture. 3. Our children will be safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected responsible and included. 4. People in Dundee will have improved physical health and mental well-being and will experience fewer health inequalities. 5. People in Dundee are able to live independently and access support when they need it. 6. Our communities will be safe and feel safe. 7. Dundee will be a fair and socially inclusive city. 8. Our people will live in strong, popular and attractive communities. 9. Our communities will have a high quality and accessible local services and facilities. 10. Our people will live in a low carbon, sustainable city. Figure 1 on page 6 shows how the Partnership translates the national outcomes to local ones and clearly delegates the lead responsibility for delivering progress while acknowledging the cross-cutting nature of all outcomes. (The matrix in Appendix 2 goes further and presents the relationship between the long and short term Dundee Outcomes and the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework and the new policy priorities set out in the SOA guidance for Community Planning Partnerships. The matrix is unavoidably detailed as it reflects the reality of the multi-dimensional nature of the outcome-based approach.) In the same way that the National Planning Group identified key priorities within the broad National Performance Framework, the Dundee Partnership has agreed the top strategic deliverables which can achieve the step change in outcomes to which we aspire in relation to the fundamental requirements to create successful families and communities - rewarding employment; a safe and nurturing childhood, supportive and inclusive communities and positive health. Fig 1: In preparing the SOA, the Dundee Partnership Forum re-affirmed its support for the following as the top strategic deliverables for Dundee. Jobs and Employability Children and Young People Transforming Dundee Waterfront Raising School Attainment Creating V&A at Dundee Improving Child Protection Securing Renewables Industries Focusing on Early Years Social Inequalities Physical and Mental Wellbeing Increasing household incomes Reducing harm from substance misuse Reducing Child Poverty Introducing city-wide Social Prescribing Increasing access to benefit/debt Rolling Out Equally Well approach to advice Mental Wellbeing Again, there is a clear relationship between these and the six new policy priorities. While these do not address older people and communities specifically, the overlap with issues including poverty, substance misuse and mental wellbeing will undoubtedly influence the quality of life of all people and neighbourhoods