Agendas, reports and minutes

A meeting of the Community Planning Board will take place in Committee Room 1, Highland Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, on Friday, 5 December 2014, at 10.00 a.m.

As a Community Planning Partner, you are invited to attend the Board meeting and a note of the business to be considered is below.

BUSINESS

1. Apologies

2. Minutes of Meetings         

i. Community Planning Board

There are circulated for approval Minutes of the last Meeting held on 13 October 2014.

ii. Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Chief Officers Group

There is circulated for reference draft Note of the last Meeting held on 7 November 2014.

3. Presentation – Skills Development Scotland

Mr Jonathan Clark, Director of Service Design and Innovation, Skills Development Scotland (SDS), will give a presentation on current SDS work in the region and how further collaboration can be supported to meet the Partnership’s Single Outcome Agreement aims.

4. Delivering Partnership Outcomes

The following updates are / will be provided by Responsible Officers against the current delivery plans for the Single Outcome Agreement (SOA), the partnership’s agreed strategic priorities and on developing partnership working: 

i. Economic growth and recovery (HIE)   
ii. Employability (HC)      
iii. Early years/Children  (HC)     
iv. Safer and stronger communities (Police Scotland) 
v. Health inequalities and physical activity/rural poverty/fragility (NHSH)      
vi. Outcomes for older people (NHSH)   
vii. Environmental outcomes (SNH)    
viii. SOA Development Plan (HC)    
ix. Community Learning and Development (HC)  

The Board is asked to scrutinise the progress reported.

5. Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill

There is circulated Report dated 26 November 2014 by the Head of Policy and Reform, the Highland Council, inviting the Board to discuss the opportunities and implications for the Community Planning Partnership (CPP) arising from the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament.

The Board is invited to note:

i. the provisions of the Bill, the stage it is at in the Parliamentary process, and that enactment is expected in summer 2015;
ii. that some provisions affect some partners more than others, for example there is likely to be a great call on HIE and Council resources to support the extension of the community right to buy, but all partners will have an interest in all parts of the Bill, given the connections between them and the outcomes in the Highland SOA; and
iii. that further reports on the Bill and the CPP response to it can be prepared for the Board.

The Board is invited to agree that the CPP works in partnership by sharing staff time and resources to be ready for implementation in the areas of: facilitating community planning (including rotating the chair for Board meetings); and designing the process for participation requests and asset transfer requests.

The Board is also invited to consider the need for the CPP to ensure communities currently disempowered or least ready to participate in new rights to be afforded to them are supported to participate and have more power and influence over what matters to them.

6. Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Membership 

There is circulated Report dated 16 November 2014 by the Head of Policy and Reform, the Highland Council, seeking Board approval for a process to expand the membership of the CPP and making recommendations for three out of five membership requests received.

The Board is invited to:

i. endorse the use of the framework for extending CPP membership as attached at Appendix 1 to the report;
ii. note that the membership interest of the Department for Works and Pensions is satisfied through its recent discussion with the Chief Officers Group (COG) and the on-going membership of two theme groups;
iii. agree that High Life Highland is invited to participate at the COG and Board, with invitations extended to the Chief Executive and Chair (with substitutes allowed when not available), and that the Highland Culture Strategic Board is formally adopted within the CPP structure;
iv. note that further recommendations will be made on the membership options for Bòrd na Gàidhlig, noting the work it will progress with partners to identify how to make the most of Gaelic as an asset for the CPP, how to improve effectiveness and efficiency of Gaelic language planning and how best to locate it within the CPP structure; and
v. note that further contact will be made with Skills Development Scotland and the Cairngorms National Park Authority to discuss potentially extending their membership of the CPP, with recommendations to a future Board meeting.

7. Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 4 March 2015, in the Highland Council Headquarters, Inverness.