Community Planning in Aberdeen Ailsa Duncan Aberdeen City Council

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Community Planning in Aberdeen Ailsa
Duncan Aberdeen City Council
community planning in Aberdeen
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The Local Government in Scotland Act (2003)
community planning in Scotland

• Taken from the Statutory Guidance
• Improving public services and making a
  difference to the lives of people who use them
  are the most important challenges for the
  Scottish Executive, local government, voluntary
  and community groups and other public bodies in
  Scotland. The Community Planning process in
  acting as a framework for making public services
  responsive to, and organised around, the needs of
  communities, has a key role in ensuring these
  challenges are met.
• Aims of Community Planning
• The two main aims of Community Planning can be
  described as
• Making sure people and communities are genuinely
  engaged in the decisions made on public services
  which affect them allied to
• A commitment from organisations to work together,
  not apart, in providing better public services.

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Community Planning - main priorities
community planning in Scotland

• delivery of national priorities - locally
• efficient, effective service delivery
• community engagement, consultation and
  participation
• delivery of the equalities agenda

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the reality for Aberdeen - a wealthy City
community planning in Aberdeen

• energy capital of Europe
• gross weekly earnings 10 above Scottish average
• claimant unemployment 2.7 (Scottish average 4)
• 24 adults have degrees (Scottish average 19)
• lower coronary heart disease than Scottish average

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current priorities
mainstreaming community planning in Aberdeen

• shared agendas
• community planning targets and action reflected
  in corporate and service plans of partners
• community planning at a neighbourhood level
• performance management - targets and performance
  indicators
• focus now on inequality in the City and
  regeneration
• joining up - e.g. Local Plan/ Regeneration/ SIP
  integration

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community planning in Aberdeen
framework
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participating partners
community planning in Aberdeen

• Aberdeen City Council The Federation of Small
  Businesses
• NHS Grampian Aberdeen Civic Forum
• Grampian Police The Regional Ecumenical Team
• Communities Scotland Aberdeen College
• Scottish Enterprise Grampian Aberdeen Trades
  Council
• Aberdeen University ACVO
• The Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Harbour
  Board
• Grampian Fire and Rescue Service
• Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce

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challenges
community planning in Aberdeen

• Leading the City Clean City
• Being Informed Transport and Connections
• Getting Involved Prosperity and Jobs
• Neighbourhood Action/Locality Planning
• Health and Social Care Aberdeens Image
• Homes Learning
• Safety Arts, Heritage and Sport
• Land Use and Environment
• ne networks
• Finance ICT
• Personnel Property
• Datashare Performance Management

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key aspects of successful mainstreaming
mainstreaming

• political will and leadership
• management drive and commitment (top down)
• political and bureaucratic accountability
• performance management/policy appraisal
• engaging communities
• securing resources

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securing resources
resources

• management information
• knowing what is spent and where
• analysis of need - targeting most need
• understanding and acknowledging the priorities
• working with partners
• agreed reporting framework

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what does it mean for you ?
resources

• understanding the bigger picture
• knowing how other organisations work
• bringing that information to your daily work
• identifying opportunities and making them happen

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challenges for the future
resources

• shared or common systems
• shared priorities
• common reporting framework
• seizing opportunities
• bringing budgets together

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www.communityplanningaberdeen.org.ukfor further
information contactAilsa Duncan 01224 523046