Priorities and outcomes for community regeneration

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Priorities and outcomes for community
regeneration Thomas Glen, Head of The Community
Regeneration Unit
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• People and Place Regeneration Policy Statement
• Launched 28th February 2006
• Growing the economy in a sustainable way is the
  number one
• priority for the Scottish Executive
• Regeneration is a crucial part of growing the
  economy and
• improving the fabric of Scotland
• Sets out a number of geographic priorities
• Aim is to turn disadvantaged neighbourhoods
  into places where people are proud to live to
  turn places that have been left behind into
  places connected with the opportunities around
  them to create areas of choice and areas of
  connection.and to build mixed and vibrant
  communities

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• What has gone before and where we are now
• Previous targeted regeneration programmes
• Strengths local projects, developed partnership
  structures, strong
• community engagement
• Weaknesses limited strategic impact,
  influencing delivery of
• mainstream services
• Community Regeneration Fund linked to
  Regeneration Outcome
• Agreements and managed through Community
  Planning Partnerships
• 32 ROAs approved by ministers autumn 2005

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• Priorities and Outcomes National versus Local
• 5 national community regeneration priorities
• Closing the Opportunity Gap Target J To promote
  community
• regeneration of the most deprived
  neighbourhoods, through
• improvements by 2008 in employability,
  education, health, access to
• local services, and quality of the local
  environment
• Developing local priorities and outcomes within
  this national
• framework
• 988 local outcome indicators across 32 ROAs

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• The Challenges to All
• Developing within the context of other strategic
  activity
• Defining need and targeting resources
• Developing and measuring progress
• Influencing and working alongside others
• Long term outcomes versus short term pressures

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Questions for discussion

• What is your link/connection to this agenda?
• What challenges do you face?
• What kind of support needs do you have?
• Who needs to do what to respond to these?

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Questions for discussion

• How useful is the Guide generally?
• Can you see it being used and by whom?
• Does it deal well with different stakeholders?
• How might it be developed further?