Agendas, reports and minutes

A meeting of the Community Planning Board will take place in the Council Chamber, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Wednesday 28 June 2017 at 10.00 am.

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

Business

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of Meetings

The following Minutes are circulated for noting or approval as appropriate:

i. Community Justice Partnership – 22 February 2017 (draft for noting); and
ii. Community Planning Board – 15 March 2017 (for approval).

3. Community Partnerships Update

A verbal update will be provided by each Community Partnership Chair.

The Board is asked to consider any risks and issues raised.

4. Developing Community Partnerships – Update

There is circulated Report No CPB/07/17 by the Acting Head of Policy, Highland Council, and the Head of Health Improvement, NHS Highland, on behalf of the Community Partnerships Subgroup.

The Board is asked to:

i. agree that, where necessary, Community Partnerships can develop a general plan for their area to cover issues that might not be captured in the children’s, adult health and social care or locality plans;
ii. agree that the strategic CLD plan be reviewed and updated;
iii. agree that the partnership Equalities Working Group develop a partnership approach to ‘inequalities proof’ local plans;
iv. approve the template at Appendix 1 of the report for Community Partnerships to use to seek agreement from the Chief Officers’ Group to add or change the localities they wish to focus on in terms of developing locality plans;
v. note that the CPP Board and Chief Officers’ Group will need to ensure that the appropriate linkages are made between the Local Outcome Improvement Plan and Locality planning process through regular review;
vi. consider and agree accountability routes and processes for approving each of the plans developed by Community Partnerships; and
vii. note that a process for escalating issues and concerns within the CPP structures needs to be developed by the Chief Officers’ Group.

5. Presentation by John Beaton, Inclusion Scotland

6. Delivering Partnership Outcomes

The following updates are provided by Responsible Officers on the current delivery plans for the Single Outcome Agreement (SOA), the partnership’s agreed strategic priorities, developing partnership working, and views on future roles for the groups:

i. Economic Growth and Regeneration (James Gibbs, HIE)        
ii. Employability (Stuart Black, HC)                    
iii. Early Years/Children (Bill Alexander, HC)                
iv. Safer and Stronger Communities (George Macdonald, PS)    
v. Health Inequalities and Physical Activity (Cathy Steer, NHSH)    
vi. Outcomes for Older People (Jan Baird, NHSH)            
vii. Environmental Outcomes (George Hogg, SNH)        
viii. Community Learning and Development (incorporated within item 7)
ix. SOA Development Plan (Alison Clark, HC)                

The Board is asked to scrutinise the progress reported.

7. Community Learning and Development (CLD)

There is circulated Report No CPB/08/17 by the Director of Care and Learning, Highland Council.

The Board is asked to:

i. note the progress being made towards the development of Locality Plans as contained in Appendix A of the report;
ii. note the appointment of the CLD support officer to support the work of the CLD Strategic Group and the nine Community Partnerships and their CLD leads;
iii. note that a framework for monitoring CLD provision through Locality Plans will be considered by the CLD Strategic Group to support monitoring by Community Partnerships/CLD leads once the CPP has considered the datasets and performance indicators that it will use to monitor progress for its overall planning;
iv. agree the revisions to the CLD Plan 2015-18 in Appendix B of the report as proposed by the CLD Strategic Group to take account of the way in which the CPP has developed the planning and service delivery arrangements;
v. note that the updated CLD Plan will be considered by the Council’s People Committee should recommendation iv. above be agreed;
vi. agree the revised CLD Strategic Group remit in Appendix C of the report which clarifies its role in the light of the new community planning/locality planning arrangements; and
vii. note that the CLD Strategic Group has started to consider the new 2018-2021 CLD Plan.

8. Supporting more community action and community-run services: acting on feedback

There is circulated Report No CPB/09/17 by the Head of Policy and Reform, Highland Council, on behalf of the Community Gateway Subgroup.

There will be a short Powerpoint presentation in amplification of the report.

The Board is asked to:

i. note the engagement events to date and the role the Highland Third Sector Interface has had in organising and facilitating them;
ii. note the feedback and ideas from community bodies, and that the idea of a Community Gateway is the most favoured; that a sub group of the COG has worked to develop this idea and engaged with providers as well; and that there appears to be considerable overlap and duplication across providers of the services sought of a Gateway;
iii. agree that the Highland Third Sector Interface, given its unique role, is supported to develop a web-based ‘Gateway’ with local and sectoral information and to explore a Highland App linking volunteers to volunteering opportunities.  This would promote support services available to community bodies, providers, individuals and community partnerships.  The Council can offer up to 100 hours of web design time and support from its Smart Cities Team.  Other partners may be able to offer support as well.  Prototypes can be developed with further engagement and brought back to the Board in October 2017 for consideration;
iv. consider the options described in paragraphs 4.6 to 5.4 of the report and provide a steer to the subgroup on what else needs to happen, in addition to action at paragraph 5.5; and
v. agree that not responding to the feedback creates risks for the CPP strategically and locally.  Whichever options are chosen the Board should ensure that those providing views are advised of the difference their engagement has made and that there are opportunities for ongoing engagement and co-creation of new products and services.

9. Draft Highland Outcome Improvement Plan (HOIP)

There is circulated Report No 10/17 on behalf of the HOIP Subgroup.

The Board is asked to:

i. note the engagement process and feedback received;
ii. agree the content and structure of the draft Highland Outcome Improvement Plan:

• agree the 5 key outcomes outlined in section 3.3 of the report
• agree the 4 impact themes outlined in section 3.4 of the report
• agree the priorities identified within each outcome which can be found on pages 4-8 of the draft Highland Outcome Improvement Plan

iii. agree the next steps for consulting on the draft Highland Outcome Improvement Plan; and
iv. agree that partners consider the community engagement feedback and work on developing supporting actions for a 1 year Delivery Plan that would be considered by the Board in October 2017.

10. Active Highland Strategy – Community Engagement

There is circulated Report No CPB/11/17 by the Chair of the Health Inequalities and Physical Activity Theme Group on behalf of the Active Highland Group.

The Board is asked to note the feedback from the community engagement work.

11. Potential impacts of the vote to leave the European Union and any contingency plans partners may have in response 

There is circulated Report No CPB/12/17 by the Director of Development and Infrastructure, Highland Council, with input from the Chief Officers’ Group.

The Board is asked to note the content and agree any actions required by the Community Planning Board.

12. Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place at 10.00 am on Wednesday 4 October 2017 in the Police Board Room, Divisional Headquarters, Old Perth Road, Inverness, IV2 3SY.