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

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

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How does the SCR contribute?

• Delivering support, supporting delivery.
• Developing skills
• Introducing New Approaches
• Improving Practice

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Why Focus on This?

• SIP programme a major investment
• Capture lessons
• Build on experience
• Support SIP integration into CPPs

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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

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What Issues Were Being Examined?

• Leadership and Governance
• Partnership and Joint Working
• Community Engagement
• Learning from Experience
• Closing the Gap

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What Relevance to CPPs?

• Support ROA implementation
• Enable strong partnerships
• Ensure effective community engagement
• Encourage continuous improvement
• Stimulate new approaches to learning

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Publication and Dissemination

• Launch of materials early 2006
• Package of 5 CDs covering each theme
• Available to all CPPs
• Possible support

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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

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Community Planning Partnerships learning from
SIPs

• Andrew Fyfe
• 24 November 2005

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Outline of presentation

• The project
• The main lessons
• Description of the learning materials
• The cluttered field
• Next steps

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The project aim

• to develop and implement a dissemination
  programme to support Community Planning
  Partnerships learn from the experience of Social
  Inclusion Partnerships

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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

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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

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The themes

• Leadership and governance
• Partnership and joint working
• Community engagement
• Systems and processes to support learning
• Impacts in terms of Closing the Gap

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The materials

• A Learning Point
• Case studies
• An assessment checklist .
• .leading to an action plan
• A facilitators pack

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The Main Lessons
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Leadership and governance

• Effective and dynamic leadership
• Governance and legal structures
• Composition and membership
• Decision making and delegation
• Staffing and employment

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Partnership and Joint Working

• Equal status for partners
• Culture
• Collective responsibility
• Training and support
• Engaging communities and private sector
• Partnership overload

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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

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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

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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

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A description of the materials
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Learning Point
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Case studies
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Assessment checklist
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Action plan
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Facilitators notes
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The cluttered field
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The cluttered field

• Community Planning Practitioners Group (and,
  eventually, Champions Group)
• Improvement Service
• Audit Scotland
• Community Voices
• Partners in Regeneration
• SURF Forum

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Next steps
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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