How can Community Planning Partnerships learn and benefit from the Experience of Social Inclusion Partnerships?

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What are we trying to do?

Closing the Opportunity Gap

“promote the 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”

How does the SCR contribute?

Delivering support, supporting delivery.

Developing skills

Introducing New Approaches

Improving Practice

Why Focus on This?

SIP programme a major investment

Capture lessons

Build on experience

Support SIP integration into CPPs

Headlines from SIP evaluations

Successful in drawing together communities, partners and money

Effective in promoting community engagement

Good at project delivery and in developing new approaches

Board commitment and capacity is essential

Dedicated support team is an important factor to success .

Need to focus more on working at a strategic rather than a project level.

Long term private sector involvement minimal

Evidence of impact on mainstream budgets is mixed

What Issues Were Being Examined?

Leadership and Governance

Partnership and Joint Working

Community Engagement

Learning from Experience

Closing the Gap

What Relevance to CPPs?

Support ROA implementation

Enable strong partnerships

Ensure effective community engagement

Encourage continuous improvement

Stimulate new approaches to learning

Publication and Dissemination

Launch of materials early 2006

Package of 5 CDs covering each theme

Available to all CPPs

Possible support

Support for Continuous Improvement

Partnership Working Skills Community Engagement Mainstreaming Equality Sustainable Development Thematic issues:

Building strong, safe communities Getting people back into work Improving health Raising educational attainment Engaging young people

Community Planning Partnerships learning from SIPs

Andrew Fyfe24 November 2005

Outline of presentation

The project

The main lessons

Description of the learning materials

The ‘cluttered’ field

Next steps

The project aim

‘to develop and implement a

dissemination programme to support

Community Planning Partnerships

learn from the experience of Social

Inclusion Partnerships’

Some cautions

People are not wanting to look backward – CPPs

are different to SIPs – need to engage partnership

board members

This is a very ‘cluttered’ area

CPPs are at very different stages – and learning

is being squeezed in the face of heavy agendas

What we have done

Reviewed all 27 SIP evaluations from 2003/04

Identified ‘good’ practice

Discussed learning methods with a number of

CPP board members

Liaised with others involved in CPP development

Prepared and tested five sets of learning

materials

The themes

Leadership and governance

Partnership and joint working

Community engagement

Systems and processes to support learning

Impacts in terms of Closing the Gap

The materials

A Learning Point

Case studies

An assessment checklist ….

….leading to an action plan

A facilitators’ pack

The Main Lessons

Leadership and governance

Effective and dynamic leadership

Governance and legal structures

Composition and membership

Decision making and delegation

Staffing and employment

Partnership and Joint Working

Equal status for partners

Culture

Collective responsibility

Training and support

Engaging communities and private sector

Partnership ‘overload’

Community engagement

Wide range of approaches – non-traditional

methods

Engaging ‘harder to reach’ groups

Resources and dedicated staff for

community capacity building

Clarity of ‘boundaries’ of engagement

Systems and processes to support learning

Clarity about monitoring; ‘formative’ and

‘summative’ evaluations

Formative’ evaluations are important

Integrate learning into routine planning and

work programmes

Importance of study visits and exchanges

Impacts in terms of Closing the Gap

Quality of baseline information …. and

regular production of data at local level

Use of mainstream resources in

regeneration areas

Focus on a manageable number of

objectives

A description of the materials

Learning Point

Case studies

Assessment checklist

Action plan

Facilitators’ notes

The ‘cluttered’ field

The ‘cluttered’ field

Community Planning Practitioners Group (and,

eventually, Champions Group)

Improvement Service

Audit Scotland

Community Voices

Partners in Regeneration

SURF Forum

Next steps

Next Steps

Finalise all materials – December

Prepare CDs and post on Communities

Scotland web-site

SCR to consider practical support to CPPs

for a range of learning materials