East Renfrewshire Community Learning and Development Plan 2018–2021 One of the family of strategies that supports the community plan 2 3 Introduction Contents Community learning and development (CLD) provides young people (aged 12-25) and adults (aged 16+) with skills for life, Page 4–7 Strategic Context learning and work including addressing personal and social development, active citizenship, and individual health and • About East Renfrewshire wellbeing issues. CLD includes work with community groups to support them to be well-run, sustainable and independent. • Key Facts It also focuses on growing community-led groups and services that make communities more cohesive, sustainable and better able to overcome the challenges they face. • Community Plan The Scottish Government’s national strategic focus for CLD is: Page 8–9 Community Involvement and Influence • Community Empowerment • Improve life chances for people of all ages, including young people in particular, through learning, personal development and active citizenship. Page 10–11 How CLD will be delivered in East Renfrewshire • Stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities. • Governance and Performance Management • Self-Evaluation Education Scotland asks that CLD Plans focus upon national priorities including early intervention and prevention, tackling • Workforce Development health inequalities, supporting communities to be empowered and involved in decision-making, and closing attainment gaps. Page 12–21 CLD Strategic Priorities This is East Renfrewshire’s second CLD Plan. The first Plan ran from 2015-2018. Our progress against the performance • Early years and vulnerable young people measures and activities is detailed in our closing report. In East Renfrewshire there is a commitment to community • Learning, life and work engagement which extends to including communities in the design and delivery of CLD. This CLD Plan will be a living • Economy and environment document which will be regularly monitored and continually evolve to reflect and respond to the changing circumstances, • Safer, supportive communities needs and priorities of the community of East Renfrewshire. • Older people and people with long term conditions Page 22 Annex 1 Unmet needs 4 5 Strategic Context EAST RENFREWSHIRE FAST FACTS About East Renfrewshire Population Gender Age East Renfrewshire lies to the south of Glasgow and stretches from rural Uplawmoor (area 1 in the map below) 2011 2017 to Eaglesham and Waterfoot (area 11 below). The population in June 2018 was estimated to be 94,760 and is 90,810 predicted to grow to 97,249 by 2021, an increase of nearly 2,500 people over the three years. 94,760 52 48 Economically active 20 60 20 70% Rising trend Children and Adults 65 and young people older Economically inactive 30% 2041 3 5 4 110,044 6 2 Rising trend 883 10% 819 861 9 10 Births Deaths 7 Where people live 2016 2016 1. Uplawmoor 1 8 Extra moving into 2. Neislton Levern East Renfrewshire Valley 2016 3. Barrhead 26% 4. Thornilbank Eastwood Faith 5. Giffnock 74% area 60 THORNLIEBANK 6. Netherlee and Stamperland BARRHEAD GIFFNOCK 7. Crookfur, Greenfarm and Mearns Village 11 Health 8. Broom, Kirkhill and Mearnskirk 26 NEILSTON UPLAWMOOR 9. Clarkston and Williamwood Life expectancy 6 NEWTON MEARNS 10. Busby 3 3 1911 2013-15 2014-16 2 11. Eaglesham and Waterfoot EAGLESHAM 8 data zones 77 80 A comprehensive needs assessment has been completed and some key 53 51 81 84 Christians Non-religious Did not say Muslims Jewish Other out of 122 in the most highlights are included for each of the outcomes below. A more detailed deprived 20% of Scotland. ? ? ? ? ? document can be viewed on the CLD pages of the East Renfrewshire Council Scotland Scotland East Renfrewshire 6,127 live here. website: www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/CLD * Figures rounded 6 7 Community Plan Strategic outcomes on a page East Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership’s (CPP) Community Plan was approved in June 2018. The Community Plan sets out the high-level ambitions for all age groups and communities in East Renfrewshire for the next ten years to meet the CPP’s vision for East Renfrewshire: An attractive and thriving place to grow up, work, visit, raise a family and enjoy later life. All children in East East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire is East Renfrewshire Older People and people Renfrewshire experience a residents are healthy and a thriving, attractive residents are safe & with long term conditions Our Community Plan also includes a layer of Fairer East Ren outcomes, and sets out how partners will work together to stable & secure childhood active & have the skills for & sustainable place life in supported in East Renfrewshire are reduce inequality across groups and communities in East Renfrewshire. CLD is provided across the whole local authority & succeed. learning, life & work. for residents & communities. valued; their voices are area, but in the main is targeted at areas or groups most in need and is crucial to closing the poverty-related attainment businesses. heard & they enjoy full & positive lives gap, reducing social isolation and tackling inequalities. There is a clear strategic focus of CLD provision in our locality plan areas – Barrhead, Neilston and Thornliebank - and CLD will contribute to tackling inequalities in these areas. 1.1 The impact of child 2.1 Residents have the 3.1 East Renfrewshire’s 5.1 Residents are safe The outcomes of the Community Plan and Fairer East Ren are set out in the diagram below with the Fairer East Ren poverty is reduced right skills, learning transport links are 4.1 Residents mental and more socially outcomes highlighted in purple. opportunities and accessible, attractive health and well beining connected with their 1.2 Parents provide a confidence to secure and seamsless is improved communities safe, healthy and nuturing and sustain work There is a clear role for CLD across many of our Community Plan and Fairer East Ren outcomes. The CLD Plan 2018-21 environment for their 3.2 East Renfrewshire 4.2 Residents live in safe 5.2 Older people and will be structured around the Community Plan and will set out the planned CLD contribution towards key Community Plan families 2.2 Children and young is thriving place communities with low people with long term outcomes. Many of the Community Plan outcomes are person-centred and have significant potential for communities people are included to invest and for levels of crime and anti- conditions stay healthy themselves to be part of the solution (such as reducing social isolation and promoting mental wellbeing). The role of CLD 1.3 Children and young business to grow social behaviour as possible people are cared for, 2.3 Children and young is critical in building the capacity of community groups to ensure communities can develop their own solutions. protected and their people raise their 3.3 East Renfrewshire 4.3 Residents are 5.3 Older people and wellbeing is safegaurded educational achievement is an attractive place proteced from harm people with long term and develop the skills they to live with a good and abuse and public conditions live safely need physical environment protection is safeguarded and independently in the community 2.4 Residents are as 3.4 East Renfrewshire 4.4 Residents live in healthy and active as is a great place to visit communities that are 5.4 Carers are valued possible strong, self-sufficient and can maintain 3.5 East Renfrewshire and resillient their own health and is environmentally wellbeing sistainable 4.5 Residents are protected from drung and alcohol related harm 8 9 Community Involvement and Influence Empowering Communities The introduction of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 places formal requirements upon CPPs to support Community learning and development leaders and practitioners use a range of tools and approaches to ensure that CLD communities to be involved in decision-making in their community and to be active in improving their local area. CLD delivery fits with people’s needs and priorities. makes a critical contribution to this through building the capacity and resilience of community groups and empowering groups to participate in the decision-making process. Service users inform and direct their learning Community involvement and influence is at the heart of CLD Planning. Service users inform and direct their own learning The Act also places tackling inequality at the heart of community planning, part of this is the requirement for locality and work with CLD practitioners towards their learning and personal development goals. CLD staff also provide support plans for those communities which experience poorer outcomes. In East Renfrewshire there have been two locality for community capacity building which is determined by the particular requirements of each community group. The plans developed for communities in Barrhead. There are two more plans underway for Neilston and Thornliebank. A Community Plan outcomes have been informed by large scale community engagement and the CLD contributions CLD approach has been used in the design and delivery of our locality planning approach. Community groups and local towards these outcomes, as set out in this Plan, have been influenced by service users. residents have co-produced each of these plans with the CPP to address the needs and aspirations of their particular area. Community Directory There have been successful Community Choices Budgeting approaches delivered in East Renfrewshire. In conjunction with East Renfrewshire Council have developed an online Community Directory as a one-stop-shop for information on the locality plans, a Community Choices event was held in Barrhead where a steering group of local community members community groups within the local authority area. This information can be used by residents and staff to get contact was supported to design and deliver the grant making process. There are clear opportunities for CLD services to support details and meeting information about the wide range of community groups in East Renfrewshire.