EAST AYRSHIRE COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTYY PPLLAANNNNIINNGG// SSIINNGGLLEE OOUUTTCCOOMMEE AAGGRREEEEMMEENNTT 2008 – 2011 AAnnnnuuaall PPeerrffoorrmmaannccee RReeppoorrtt 22000099//1100 30 September 2010 CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 4 2. SOA Improvement Plan 2009/10 5 3. Partnership Working 5 4. Community Engagement 6 5. Governance and Scrutiny Arrangements 7 6. Outcomes: Progress and Achievement 2009/10 8 7. Community Planning Four Yearly Review 14 8. Fairer Scotland Fund 17 9. Ongoing Development of the SOA 19 10. Challenges – Economic Downturn 19 11. Conclusion 21 SOA Annual Performance Report 2009/10: Outcome Templates . National Outcome 1 – We live in a Scotland that is the most attractive place for doing business in Europe. 23 . National Outcome 2 – We realise our full economic potential with more and better employment opportunities for our people. 31 . National Outcome 3 – We are better educated, more skilled and more successful, renowned for our research and innovation. 37 . National Outcome 4 – Our young people are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens. 50 . National Outcome 5 – Our children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed. 66 . National Outcome 6 – We live longer, healthier lives. 76 . National Outcome 7 – We have tackled the significant inequalities in Scottish society. 89 . National Outcome 8 – We have improved the life chances for children, 103 young people and families at risk. National Outcome 9 – We live our lives safe from crime, disorder and 114 danger. National Outcome 10 – We live in well-designed, sustainable places where 124 we are able to access the amenities and services we need. National Outcome 11 – We have strong, resilient and supportive 131 communities where people take responsibility for their own actions and how they affect others. National Outcome 12 – We value and enjoy our built and natural 140 environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations. National Outcome 13 – We take pride in a strong, fair and inclusive national identity. 147 . National Outcome 14 – We reduce the local and global environmental impact of our consumption and production. 154 . National Outcome 15 – Our public services are high quality, continually improving, efficient and responsive to local people‟s needs. 161 Summary of Progress 2009/10 179 Concordat between the Scottish Government and Local Authorities 180 Local Delivery Plan 2010/11: NHS Ayrshire and Arran - Contribution to 183 Single Outcome Agreements Glossary of Terms 197 1. INTRODUCTION 1. COMMUNITY PLANNING IN EAST AYRSHIRE: ‘ONE COUNCIL, ONE PLAN’ Our Vision: East Ayrshire will be a place with strong, vibrant communities where everyone has a good quality of life and access to opportunities, choices and high quality services which are sustainable, accessible and meet people’s needs. 1.1 The East Ayrshire Community Plan is recognised by all Community Planning Partners as the sovereign strategic planning document for the delivery of public services in East Ayrshire. The Plan covers 12 years from 2003 to 2015 and sets out the overall vision for the local area. It articulates clearly that Partners are committed to achieving – “high quality services which are sustainable, accessible and meet people’s needs”. Recognising the principle of „One Council, One Plan‟, the Council has adopted the Community Plan as its Corporate Plan. 1.2 Consequently, East Ayrshire Council and its Planning Partners took a collective view from the outset, and one year before the requirement to do so, that a Community Planning Partnership Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) would be developed for the local area, covering the three-year period from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2011, which was approved by John Swinney, MSP and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, on behalf of the Scottish Government, on 2 July 2008. 1.3 In taking forward our commitment to review our SOA on an annual basis, following endorsement by all Community Planning Partners our updated SOA was approved by the Scottish Government on 16 July 2009, with overall sign off completed by Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change, on 23 July 2009. 1.4 The SOA builds on and strengthens the strategic priorities articulated in the Community Plan and is regarded as a robust management tool, which will ensure a more streamlined approach to external scrutiny and effective performance management and reporting. In addition, our SOA ensures that Community Planning Partners and the Scottish Government are working closer together to deliver better services, outcomes and quality of life for local people across the East Ayrshire area. 1.5 To streamline annual reporting in respect of the Community Plan Action Plans and the SOA, and avoid duplication of activity, at its meeting on 18 March 2010 the Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Board agreed that reporting for the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 be aligned, with a consolidated Community Planning/SOA performance report submitted to the CPP Board in September 2010. 1.6 Our consolidated Community Planning/SOA Annual Performance Report 2009/10 ensures a comprehensive report on achievement of outcomes back to the CPP Board, the Council, the Scottish Government and the wider community as part of our commitment to public performance reporting. 1.7 In addition, as part of the Four-yearly Review of Community Planning being progressed throughout 2010/11, the opportunity will be taken to look at areas to further align and streamline Community Planning reporting arrangements. 4 2. SOA IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2009/10 2. SOA ANNUAL REPORT 2008/09 - IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2.1 In response to the progress made in 2008/09, the CPP Board at its meeting of 26 November 2009 considered and agreed the areas identified for improvement within the SOA Annual Performance Report 2008/09, which would require to be addressed and taken forward either solely by individual agencies or on a partnership basis. This consideration formed the basis of an SOA Improvement Plan for 2009/10. 2.2 Areas identified for improvement included the following: Business start up rate; Better employment opportunities for local people; Educational and skills capacity of the local workforce, in particular our young people; Health and well being of the local population, including the Alcohol and Drugs agenda; Tackling poverty and disadvantage; and Fear of crime. 2.3 In this regard, a range of activity has been progressed during the course of the year to facilitate the achievement of local outcomes, examples of which have been demonstrated throughout this report, and actions taken forward in the SOA Improvement Plan are routinely reported to the CPP Board. 2.4 Where appropriate, actions will be identified in respect of areas for improvement in the Community Planning/SOA Annual Performance Report 2009/10 and remedial action taken forward, which it is anticipated will facilitate the achievement of the local outcomes in our three year SOA by March 2011. 3. PARTNERSHIP WORKING 3. ONGOING COMMITMENT TO PARTNERSHIP WORKING 3.1 The overarching Community Plan continues to provide the foundation for effective partnership working in East Ayrshire and allows us to provide a range of quality services for local people. Within the framework of Community Planning, the SOA approach provides further opportunities for Planning Partners to ensure maximum benefit for service users and achievement of better outcomes for local communities. 3.2 The findings of the Accounts Commission in the East Ayrshire Council Best Value 2 Pathfinder Audit, published on 1 April 2010, highlight that: “Services in East Ayrshire are performing well overall and partnership working within the Council area is highly effective”. 3.3 Work continues to be taken forward to strengthen relationships at a local level between all relevant partners, including a range of partner agencies and the community and voluntary sectors. 5 Future Developments: Enhanced Partnership Working 3.4 The Chief Officers‟ Seminar of 19 January 2010 initiated the Community Plan Four- yearly Review and provided the opportunity to consider the challenges presented to the CPP and individual organisations by the wider economy, and reflect on the way forward, particularly in relation to how enhanced partnership working could help address these challenges. 3.5 In respect of the shared strategic agenda, it was agreed that the CPP requires to drive cultural change and ensure that all Partners sign up to agreed strategic priorities and deliver on them operationally. 3.6 In addition, it was agreed that there is a clear role for the CPP in critically scrutinising spend across all Partners‟ mainstream budgets and ensuring that we maximise spend from existing resources. 3.7 Subsequently, at its meeting of 24 June 2010, the CPP Board agreed the Strategic Priorities and associated Local Outcomes for 2011-2015, which established the shared strategic agenda. 3.8 In this context, it is important that, as part of our budget setting processes, the potential risk and negative impact of individual Partner decisions on partnership activity and local service delivery should be considered, taking account of issues of governance and risk management. 3.9 Consequently, as Partners, we require to consider a mechanism/systematic process for stakeholders to consider and discuss the impact of funding decisions on other partners and future Community Planning activity. In this regard, work will be taken forward in 2010/11. 4. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 4. SYSTEMATIC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 4.1 Effective and systematic engagement of communities lies at the heart of the Community Planning process in East Ayrshire and a wide range of community involvement has facilitated the ongoing development and implementation of our Community Plan, Action Plans and SOA as follows: Federations of Community Groups: Comprising representation from communities across East Ayrshire, the Federations of Community Groups ensure that the views of communities are represented in strategic planning and decision making. Each of the two Federations is represented on the CPP Board.