Resetting the Highland Outcome Improvement Plan
Highland Councillors have noted and welcomed a ‘reset’ of the Highland Outcome Improvement Plan (HOIP) for 2024 – 2027 and delivery plan actions.
Members of the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee noted that progress on the HOIP actions will be reported to the Community Planning Partnership Board on a regular basis with an annual presentation on progress to the Council in June.
The Highland Outcome Improvement Plan has been reviewed and updated considering the changing local picture since the Covid pandemic, the cost of living crisis and the current financial challenges facing both the public and third sectors.
Chair of the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee, Cllr David Fraser welcomed the reset of the HOIP and its agreed actions. He said: “The Highland Outcome Improvement Plan and its series of actions will enable community planning partners to deliver better outcomes in their communities. This reset HOIP will help to ensure that partner agencies will be more effective and efficient with available resources to deliver the identified actions.
“For example, one of the proposed HOIP actions in the theme of ‘whole family and community based approaches’ is to ‘develop multi-generational models to deliver childcare’ which help people in Highland, tackle depopulation and benefit Highland communities by accessing services locally.”
The plan has been reviewed and updated by the Community Planning Partnership. The plan sets out strategic priorities and actions across thematic areas which the partnership bodies working with local communities will work together to improve local outcomes.
The plan’s strategic priorities which aim to ‘maximise opportunities and tackle inequality to build a thriving Highlands for all’ are:
- People - Enable people to live independently, safe and well within their community.
- Place - Work in partnership to develop sustainable and resilient local communities.
- Prosperity - Creating opportunities for all people and places to prosper and thrive economically.
Councillors have endorsed the action plan approved by the CCP board which sets out detailed actions against a series of thematic areas including:
- Connecting People and Places.
- Whole families and community-based approaches.
- Employment and Employability.
- Community Wealth Building.
- Housing.
- Shared approaches to commissioning, and
- Aligning partnership practices.
Chief Officers will be identified as sponsors for each thematic area to take forward a delivery framework for the final HOIP and its actions. The delivery framework was agreed by the Community Planning Partnership Board in September.
The Highland Outcome Improvement Plan for 2024-2027 and actions can be viewed at item 9 of the Council’s Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Committee agenda for 13 November.