TACKLING INEQUALITIES

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TACKLING INEQUALITIES

• Val Cox
• Scottish Government

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THE GOVERNMENTS PURPOSE

• To focus.....on creating a more successful
  country, with opportunities for all of Scotland
  to flourish, through increasing sustainable
  economic growth.

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• COMMITS SG TO TACKLING
• LONG-TERM PROBLEMS
• Poverty
• Inequality health/income/outcomes
• Under-achievement

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• POVERTY
• In 2007-2008, relative poverty affected
• 860,000 individuals 17 of population
• 200,000 children
• 460,000 working age adults
• 200,000 pensioners
• INCOME INEQUALITY
• Bottom 30 - 1.5m people earn only 14 of
  income
• 370,000 children
• 760,000 working age adults
• 370,000 pensioners.

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• HEALTH INEQUALITY
• Poorest are dying earlier
• Poorest are more vulnerable to cancer and
  cardio-vascular disease
• Poorest most vulnerable to poor mental wellbeing.

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• INFLUENCE OF EARLY YEARS EXPERIENCE ON
• Education outcomes
• Employment
• Healthy choices/lifestyles

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• GOVERNMENTS ANSWER
• 3 Frameworks
• Achieving Our Potential
• Equally Well
• Early Years Framework
• - Address same constellation of issues from
  differing perspectives.

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• KEY FOCUS ACROSS ALL
• FRAMEWORKS
• Prevention
• Early Intervention
• Building Capacity
• Multi-faceted approach
• Bottom-up development

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• WHAT WILL DELIVERY REQUIRE
• Shared ownership of agenda
• Agreement on outcomes to be achieved
• Collaboration
• Resource realignment
• Shared resourcing
• Service development and redesign
• Services tailored to individual needs

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• NEXT STEPS
• For CPPs - delivery of SOAs
• - 4 cross-cutting themes
• For SG - supporting local delivery
• - securing a consistent SG approach to
  implementation.
• For All - Agree a coherent/ consistent set
  of outcomes and indicators.