ABERDEENSHIRE COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIPLOCAL OUTCOMES IMPROVEMENT PLANOCTOBER 2017 - OCTOBER 2018ANNUAL REPORT

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Foreword ...................................................................................................... 3

Background and Introduction .................................................................... 4

How Did We Get Here? ................................................................................ 5

Local Involvement ....................................................................................... 8

Community Engagement and Participation .............................................. 9

Aberdeenshire LOIP Priorities in Practice .............................................. 11

Changing Aberdeenshire’s Relationship with Alcohol Priority ............. 12

Reducing Child Poverty in Aberdeenshire Priority ................................ 14

Connected & Cohesive Communities (Locality Plans) Priority ............ 16 Peterhead Locality Plan .......................................................................... 17 Fraserburgh Locality Plan ....................................................................... 21

Moving Forward ......................................................................................... 23

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CONTENTS PAGE

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Welcome to the first Annual Report of Aberdeenshire’s Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP) for 2017-27.This report will give an overview of Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership (CPP) LOIP’s progress from October 2017 - October 2018.

The development of our new LOIP priorities has highlighted that a lot of work is already underway across Aberdeenshire to tackle the issues of alcohol, child poverty and inequalities in key localities through a wide network of active groups and plans. It has also provided an opportunity to bring fresh ideas into action to fill in gaps. Such innovation would not be possible without working in partnership, which is why the contributions and commitments from CPP Partners and other service providers have been essential for finalising these plans.

Most importantly, community planning would not exist without the input of communities. The local Community Planning groups help ensure that our communities can be part of the process so that their needs can be identified and addressed. This Annual Report is primarily for communities. It explains the engagement and research that took place to integrate communities’ views into our plans and ensure that we implement actions that make a difference where it is needed.

This is just the first year of the LOIP, but the Aberdeenshire CPP is excited about the initiatives that we have chosen to implement during the rest of the LOIP’s lifetime.

Cllr James Gifford Chair of the Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership Board

FOREWORD

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In March 2017, the CPP Board formally agreed three LOIP priorities for Aberdeenshire. To enable the CPP progress this 10-year plan (2017 - 2027), three Strategic Lead Partnership (SLP) groups will oversee the development of the priorities.

These are:• Changing Aberdeenshire’s Relationship with Alcohol Lead group: Aberdeenshire Alcohol & Drugs Partnership (ADP)• Reducing Child Poverty Lead group: Tackling Poverty & Inequalities (TP&I) Strategic Group• Connected and Cohesive Communities (Locality Plans) Lead group: Connected & Cohesive Communities (C&CC) A newly formed strategic partnership group involving third sector and partner organisations.

The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 aims to support communities to have a stronger voice in planning and delivering services. It focuses on addressing inequality and empowering communities to improve outcomes in their area.

The Act required all Community Planning Partnerships (CPP) in Scotland to publish at least 1 LOIP and 1 Locality Plan by 1 October 2017. The Aberdeenshire LOIP provides a vision and focus, based on agreed local priorities, to which partners will work systematically and collaboratively to meet the needs and aspirations of local communities in Aberdeenshire.

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

To develop the LOIP we used statistical research, expertise from partners and, most importantly, the

grass-roots knowledge of communities themselves.

CHILD POVERTY

12.6% 1 in 8 children in Aberdeenshire are living in poverty* This is better than the Scottish average. But some districts are worse off.

Poverty is hidden, due to stigma:

[I’m] basically relying on family - they are helping us financially.

I dinnae want to ask for the help really. I’m too ashamed.(Source: Lessons from Local Voices)

In-work poverty is an issue:

22% of workers in Aberdeenshire are paid less than the Living Wage (2016)

ALCOHOL

Only 14%

of 12,400 dependent drinkers in Aberdeenshire were engaged with support services in 2017

The cost of alcohol-related admissions for the NHS in Aberdeenshire was

£5.6 million a yearas at 2017

The alcohol-related death rate in Aberdeenshire was 11.8 (per 100,000 population) in 2017/18.Nationally in Scotland, the rate was (per 100,000 population).In England, the rate was (per 100,000 population).Last year, more Aberdeenshire citizens died due to alcohol than at any time since 1979.

I got to the point where I believed that alcohol was the treatment,

because I never felt the pain, never had to carry the hurt...

(Video Clip Source: Mental Health by Shmu TV Online)

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

CONNECTED & COHESIVE COMMUNITIES (LOCALITY PLANS)

FRASERBURGHPETERHEAD

Three locality plans for Aberdeenshire have been chosen based on key areas of disadvantage, highlighted in the most recent Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD, 2016) and the Improvement Service’s Community Planning Outcomes Profile (CPOP) tool.

Scottish Index of Multiple DeprivationCommunity Planning Outcomes Profile

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

CONNECTED & COHESIVE COMMUNITIES (LOCALITY PLANS)

BANFF AND MACDUFF

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LOCAL INVOLVEMENT These are the groups, networks, partnerships and forums that are working together to address local

priorities in the LOIP and Locality Plans.

PARTNERSHIPSPartnerships support Communities in a number of ways including:Health & Social Care Partnership working to deliver new approaches to health care in our communities.Local Rural Partnerships exist across Aberdeenshire supporting community economic and social activities giving advice on governance, finance and funding.The Third Sector Interface, Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action (AVA), is part of a Scotland wide network that helps communities empower themselves through volunteering and training.

THE THIRD SECTORCommunity Groups, Voluntary Organisations, Charities, Social Enterprises, Co-operatives, and individual volunteers have had an important role in helping communities across Aberdeenshire thrive.Social Enterprises include community enterprises, credit unions, trading arms of charities, employee owned businesses, co-operatives, housing associations and social firmsCommunity Groups: A number of groups exist to deliver specific projects and activities. Examples include Community Safety Groups, Community Councils and Health Improvement Groups.

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FORUMSA variety of Forums are regularly attended by partners and members of the Community.Alcohol & Drugs Partnership Community Forums focus on finding solutions to local needs around drugs, alcohol and recovery.Community Council Forums as a Statutory Consultee, these Forums are multi-purpose and an ideal engagement platform.Community Planning Ward Forums provide the opportunity for elected members and partners to discuss wide local agendas.Community Forums usually organised by partners for networking, training or consultation purposes.

NETWORKSLocal Networks ensure that a joined-up approach is applied when addressing certain themes, for example, Organisations working with Children & Young People, Public Safety and Health Initiatives. Networks focusing on Children and Young People include groups such as Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) and organisations such as Modo along with Aberdeen Foyer.

LOCAL COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUPSOur Community Planning Groups help to join up the efforts and resources of public, business, voluntary and community organisations. By working together, we can successfully deliver the best quality of life for local residents, whilst providing the opportunity for them to contribute to the outcomes.To support partnership working arrangements, Local Community Planning Groups hold regular meetings as well as wider partnership events throughout the year. These include partners, elected members, third sector organisations and council officers, enabling a collective approach to the delivery of the LOIP and Locality Plans.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

• ABERDEENSHIRE CITIZENS’ PANEL – The Aberdeenshire wide Citizens’ Panel Survey has 1,100+ members. In the past year they have been asked about their views on child poverty, alcohol and public involvement in decision-making. The results highlighted public perceptions on the issues and the public services that tackle them.

• MINI PUBLICS – are assemblies of citizens, demographically representative of the population, brought together to learn and deliberate on topics to inform public opinion and decision-making. A mini public was held in Fraserburgh drawing together members of the community to discuss a vision for the north part of the town with a particular focus on the town’s JIC building.

• PLACE STANDARD TOOL - enabled communities to think about the physical elements of a place (e.g. its buildings, spaces, and transport links), the social aspects assisting in pinpointing the assets of Fraserburgh and Peterhead as other well as areas where there could be improvements.

• PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING (PB) – enables local people to decide on the issues that matter to them, helping them to understand public spending, put forward their own ideas and vote on them. PB events have been held throughout Aberdeenshire gathering communities’ views about the issues that affect their area and the actions that are required to tackle them. In Peterhead and Fraserburgh these were “Your Voice, Your Choice” and “Peterhead Decides”.

LOIP and locality plans have been shaped by the

community and reflect their views. Meaningful

community engagement and participation

ensures we gather a good understanding of

local community assets, issues that affect their

area and the actions that are required to tackle them. To do this, the

following activities were undertaken:

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• COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUPS INCLUDING JOINT MEETINGS – Involvement and participation across wide local partnerships including local services and organisations, elected members and the community, who work together to address local needs and priorities, which are included within the Locality Plans, Local Outcomes Improvement Plan and Community Action Plans.

• HAVE YOUR SAY! WORKSHOPS (INCLUDING YOUTH WORKSHOPS) - Workshops involving multi-agency staff and the local community were carried out in Peterhead and Fraserburgh to create a future vision of the needs of communities.

• MULTI-AGENCY WORKSHOPS – Workshops have involved key stakeholders in the development of the plans. In addition to bespoke events, they have used a range of partnership groups, e.g. Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Group; Financial Inclusion Partnership; Employability Partnership; Aberdeenshire Public Health Team and Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action Early Years Forum.

• ALCOHOL + DRUGS PARTNERSHIP (ADP) COMMUNITY FORUM EVENTS – ADP South Community Forum organised and promoted a family-friendly, alcohol-free element of the Stonehaven Folk Festival 2018 involving storytelling and performances from local artists. Aberdeenshire Council and NHS Grampian hosted an information stall on alcohol and drugs at the “Year of Young People” event at Haddo House in September 2018.

• YOUTH FORUMS - Views of young people were sought at a meeting in April 2018 on various aspects of alcohol supply and consumption.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION

ABERDEENSHIRE LOIP PRIORITIES IN PRACTICE

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Alcohol-related deaths are only one consideration. Others include:• Rising demands on services• Impact on children• Alcohol-related crime• Worsened health (48 associated health conditions)Although Aberdeenshire compares favourably with many other areas in Scotland, we have pockets of alcohol-related harm comparable with the worst areas of Scotland.

ALCOHOL LOIP OUTCOMES AND ACTION TAKENThe overarching goal is that Aberdeenshire will have closed the gap in the length of healthy life expectancy between advantaged and disadvantaged communities because of an improved relationship with alcohol.Four intermediate outcomes:• Those vulnerable to harm from alcohol are protected.• Our environment promotes social norms of low-risk alcohol consumption and drunkenness being considered harmful.• Those unable to moderate their drinking can readily access the help they need unhindered by stigma.• Partners proactively and proportionately contribute to the alcohol LOIP shared expression of ambition.

CHANGING ABERDEENSHIRE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ALCOHOL PRIORITY

CHANGING ABERDEENSHIRE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ALCOHOL PRIORITY

Changing Aberdeenshire’s relationship with alcohol is a challenging brief because there is a strong cultural norm that drinking above the recommended safer limits is acceptable and harmless. We need to use a range of evidence based interventions across a range of areas which together will contribute to reducing alcohol harms including: normalising low-risk alcohol choices and challenging high-risk drinking via education and regulation; ensuring easy access to mental health support and specialist alcohol services; and addressing the stark links between poverty and alcohol harm.

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Action focussed on the following three themes, linked to the outcomes above. Examples are shown below:

PREVENTION: • A “Sobering Thought” Facebook campaign was successfully launched with a high number of views and people completing an associated activity or being directed to the website for information and support.• Train-the-trainer courses have been held in 2017 and 2018 on carrying out alcohol brief interventions. Nursing staff, housing staff and GPs have been engaged with.

CARE AND SUPPORT: • The ability of families and staff of universal services (e.g hospitals, police, housing, schools) to refer people affected by alcohol has been increased through training.• New approaches are being taken to reduce blockages in health and social care services and funding has been sourced to increase specialist pharmacy support to help with safer prescribing.• A Peer Support strategy is in final stages of development, and sources of funding/ resources are being explored to be able to take some initiatives forward. People will also be asked what they require in terms of peer support as they come into services.

PROTECTION:• The Alcohol and Drug Partnership are now represented at all appropriate levels of the childrens services framework Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) in Aberdeenshire.• The learning and development needs of addictions staff in Aberdeenshire have been assessed and coaching/training set up to address these.

NEXT STEPS• Finding opportunities to promote and normalise low-risk alcohol consumption with guidance from the national Alcohol Framework 2018• Identifying and reaching out to people and families who are experiencing health inequalities and have multiple issues by creating cross system pathways• Work across the partnership to address route causes of harmful use of alcohol (e.g mental health, childhood trauma etc.)

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UNDERSTANDING CHILD POVERTYTo develop a plan it was important to begin by understanding the nature and location of child poverty in Aberdeenshire. In 2017 the Aberdeenshire CPP commissioned the Poverty Alliance and Scottish Poverty Information Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University to do research on the topic. The resulting paper, Tackling Child Poverty in Aberdeenshire: lessons from local voices*, was published in April 2018. The voices of those with lived experience of poverty and of experts were also vital part of the research. These came from an online survey of service providers in Aberdeenshire, interviews with Aberdeenshire residents directly affected by poverty and an event with partners to consider the findings.

OUTCOMESThe Aberdeenshire Child Poverty LOIP priority focusses on tackling the root causes of poverty and building people’s capabilities through income maximisation, employability, improving quality of life, helping families manage the impacts of poverty and promoting positive life chances. The 4 overarching outcomes of Aberdeenshire’s strategic approach to child poverty are: • Preventing children on the margins of poverty falling into poverty. • Reducing the number of children living in poverty by moving those in poverty out of poverty. • Protecting children living in poverty from its most adverse effects. • Enabling children to live a poverty-free adult life.

Consistent with Scottish Government’s national Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018 - 2022, Every Child, Every Chance, the Aberdeenshire Child Poverty LOIP priority focuses on the needs of ‘priority families’ at high risk of poverty: Lone parents; Families where a member of the household is disabled; Families with 3 or more children; Minority ethnic families; Families where youngest child is under 1; Mothers aged under 25

Child poverty means growing up in families

without the resources to ‘obtain the type of diet,

participate in the activities and have the living

conditions and amenities’ which are the norm in 21st century Scotland. It has an impact on young people’s

health, wellbeing, social networks and choices. The Tackling Poverty &

Inequalities Strategic Group (TP&I) is leading on delivering this LOIP

priority.

REDUCING CHILD POVERTY IN ABERDEENSHIRE PRIORITY

*http://www.ouraberdeenshire.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Report-Child-Poverty-in-Aberdeenshire_Final.pdf

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LOIP ACTIONS 2017-18• Creating a Short Life Working Group on Child Poverty in summer 2017. • Developing a digital Poverty Forum in Aberdeenshire for people with experience of poverty to give their views on the ongoing LOIP work. A new post is being created to support this. • Designing new Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities to improve practitioners’ awareness of child poverty in Aberdeenshire, starting with a pilot Cost of the School Day training in Stonehaven. • Improving the accessibility in rural areas of income maximisation and welfare rights services (e.g. Financial Inclusion Partnership), alongside partners. • Evaluating how Midwifery, Health Visiting and pre-school childcare services can signpost more pregnant women and families with young children to specialist money and welfare advice. • Improving support for families experiencing fuel poverty, starting with evaluating the Energy Champions pilot project in Aberdeenshire. • Improving support for families experiencing food poverty, starting by evaluating a pilot programme for at-risk families in Fraserburgh.

NEXT STEPSIn 2018/19 we will build on the work we have started and focus on the following: • Ensure that programmes like the Universal Health Visiting Pathway, the extension of the Family Nurse Partnership, Making Every Opportunity Count (MEOC), the Neonatal Expenses Fund and Parenting Programmes maximise opportunities to signpost mothers/families in or at risk of poverty to relevant services. • Finish developing an Aberdeenshire Poverty Forum. • Review available evidence and consult with schools to identify how to reduce the cost of the school day. • Explore how Aberdeenshire’s schools can use the Pupil Equity Fund to tackle child poverty. • Explore how community-based support services, like the Here for You Centre and Compass Point, can be rolled out to other areas to improve employability prospects for priority target groups.

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CONNECTED & COHESIVE COMMUNITIES (LOCALITY PLANS) PRIORITY

The CPP agreed this priority should take the form of locality plans for those towns/ areas throughout Aberdeenshire who experience the most social and economic disadvantage. The priority moved from the original issue of connectivity from which it stemmed, to a wider social connection evolving towards meeting local needs and addressing poorer outcomes in certain localities. The more “connected” a community is, particularly in terms of access to services and physical connections, such as broadband, road networks and transportation, to social connections and citizens, the greater the opportunity is for the community to be “cohesive” with a common vision and sense of belonging – where all individuals feel valued, respected and there is equal opportunity of access, i.e. addressing socio-economic inequalities.CPPs are required to prepare locality plans for areas experiencing poorer outcomes, setting out how outcomes will be improved within that area. 3 locality plans for Aberdeenshire have been chosen based on key areas of disadvantage, highlighted in the most recent Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD, 2016) assessment and the Improvement Service’s Community Planning Outcomes Profile (CPOP) tool.

Peterhead Locality Plan was developed and submitted to the Scottish Government in October 2017. The Fraserburgh Locality Plan was endorsed in principle at the CPP Board meeting in January 2019, with the remaining locality plan of Banff & Macduff to be developed in 2019. These community-led plans have included significant community engagement, statistical analysis and asset mapping to determine the local issues to be addressed and specific actions and interventions to be developed and delivered.

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PETERHEAD LOCALITY PLAN LOCAL OUTCOMES 2017 – 2027• To close the child poverty and income inequality gap between the most deprived areas of Peterhead and the least deprived areas of the town and the rest of Aberdeenshire.• To close the healthy life expectancy inequality gap between Peterhead and the rest of Aberdeenshire.• To reduce the incidence of alcohol related morbidity and mortality.• To improve outcomes for children and young people, to continue to raise attainment and aspirations.• To promote economic growth and development and ensure that work is available for those who want it.• To reduce incidences of crime and the fear of crime and to improve Fire Safety.• To improve the quality of housing stock, reduce fuel poverty and provide greater opportunity for people to own and rent their home through provision of affordable housing.• To engage new communities in Peterhead (both physical areas and recent arrivals) to integrate, contribute to and feel part of the town.• To engage people and encourage active citizenship through community organisations, representative fora and social enterprises.

PETERHEAD LOCALITY PLAN

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TAKE FORWARD THE PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROGRAMME / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A ‘MINI PUBLIC’ APPROACHAction: Short to Medium TermEvents focusing on Community Engagement and Participation have been hugely successful with the completion of a 2-year participatory budgeting pilot in 2017 ‘Your Voice Your Choice’, which provided funding for a range of community clubs and groups. The pilot has helped to generate thousands of volunteer hours and additional funding secured for the area as part of the community directly delivering those projects which local residents had voted for.

Next Steps:• The Your Voice Your Choice Pilot has been evaluated with findings due to be reported to the Integrated Joint Board.• Peterhead Community Council is now leading a participatory budgeting project ‘Peterhead Decides’ which empowers people of Peterhead to have a say in a roads and landscape local authority budget allocation. • The Longate “mini-public” approach in the Harbour area of Peterhead has engaged with a group of residents and is being supported to develop some local projects which they are keen to see happen.

ESTABLISH AN EMPLOYABILITY AND INCOME MAXIMISATION PROJECTAction: Short to Medium The Compass Point Pilot was established as a one-stop-shop and was led by third sector partners. The pilot was completed in December 2018 and a full evaluation of this pilot will be completed by 31st March 2019. Next Steps: Recommendations will be used to inform future provision and to secure and allocate funding to other partnership projects in the future.

DEVELOP AND TEST THE BUSINESS CASE FOR A CULTURAL HUBAction: Medium to Long TermA series of public events have been held to address a lack of Arts and Cultural opportunities within Peterhead by engaging with artists and the community to bring them together as part of scoping local needs. Next Steps: Community feedback has helped to identify priorities which will be developed with support from the Aberdeenshire Council Arts Development Team and this will include help to raise awareness of Aberdeenshire-wide initiatives which can be linked into as well as support for more community based initiatives.

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DEVELOP A SPORTS HUBAction: Medium TermSports & Leisure Clubs have come together to form a Community Sports Hub and representatives have worked together to identify a list of priority actions. These priorities include training, providing taster sessions and developing a register of all clubs and groups in the area. The Hub has also identified that a lack of facilities and space for groups and clubs to operate from, is a strong emerging need which is impacting on levels of participation and activities being offered. Next Steps:• The Hub is keen to create a strong supportive network which will focus on sharing resources and space where possible until better and improved facilities can be delivered. A programme of training opportunities which begun delivery in 2018 will continue throughout 2019, including child protection. • Peterhead Area Community Trust (PACT) is taking forward ambitious plans to improve a pavilion facility which is Phase One of a longer-term project aimed at improving local community access to sports and activity facilities.

DELIVER THE PETERHEAD LEARNING ESTATEAction: Long Term A Peterhead Masterplan reference group will steer the significant capital investment in Peterhead over the next 10 years. Next Steps: The project planning stage has commenced for delivering the new Peterhead Community Campus.

ADDRESS WELFARE REFORMAction: Medium to Long TermLocal rationalisation of the various partnership groups operating in Peterhead and throughout Buchan is helping to provide a focus on minimising the impact of poverty and inequalities on issues such as Money; Employment; Loneliness; Mental Health. Next Steps: A ‘Poverty Summit’ was organised for February 2019 and this brought together representatives from local operational networks as part of ‘decluttering’ the present landscape; to help establish baseline information on the services being provided, to strengthen local networks, identify current gaps and challenges and to provide a forum for solution based discussions on what can be done in the future.

EMPOWERING TOWN CENTRE RETAILAction: Medium TermRediscover Peterhead, the Business Improvement District is helping to empower local businesses to take action to change and reinvigorate the town centre. Achievements to date include a successful seagull control programme, a town centre cleaning programme and a well-attended Seafood festival to coincide with the opening of the new Fishmarket at the Port.Next Steps: Looking forward to the year ahead, Rediscover Peterhead are working with Police Scotland to reduce crime within the town centre, are currently planning to improve on the success of the Seafood Festival with music and car festivals and are preparing a strategy to encourage investment in the town.

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DELIVER ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ESOL) LEARNING OPPORTUNITIESAction: Medium to Long Term The Encounter Language Café situated in a former vacant shop in the town centre led by Modo, Community Learning Development and WEA, has effectively engaged with a group of migrants providing a social opportunity and the chance to support those on the margins for whom English is not their first language. This has enabled onward referrals to services and support to address life issues.

TACKLE INSTANCES OF CRIME AND FEAR OF CRIMEAction: Medium to Long Term The Encounter Youth Café provides a free, safe and accessible place for young people to meet friends, to take part in positive activities, and to access support and advice to help them change their lives for the better. The Club attracts 50 young people a night and 600 participants a year. Since opening, Police Scotland have reported a 46% reduction of anti-social behaviour incidents in Drummer’s Corner and a 30% reduction in the town centre. It has become a gateway to volunteering and training. 25 young people currently volunteer, accounting for 7,000 hours of volunteer time.

Next Steps: Aberdeenshire Council has awarded a Social Enterprise grant to fund a feasibility study to assess the financial and social sustainability of creating a fully functioning and fit for purpose community café in the centre of Peterhead. The Community Café would aim to be a permanent safe, positive and stigma free venue during the day serving affordable food where people can also access groups, training and support from a host of partner services. During the evening the café would continue as a youth hub for young people offering a free and accessible place for young people to meet friends, to take part in positive activities, and to access support and advice to help them change their lives for the better, while strengthening the links between youth and community.

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Fraserburgh Locality Plan, prepared on behalf of the Banff and Buchan

Local Community Planning Partnership,

was developed through a cooperative process

involving local residents, community organisations,

and partner agencies in the voluntary, private and

public sectors. In that process, we considered what we can all do together to

improve the quality of life for people who live in the area.

FRASERBURGH LOCALITY PLAN

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We will continue to monitor progress on socio-economic performance in Fraserburgh against these plans but will also go further and develop fit for purpose short-life projects where there is need to provide Fraserburgh with the additional boost it deserves.The short life projects that address identified gaps will be developed in collaboration with community planning partners and led by the partner/s where the work is relevant to their area/s. The (3) strands identified to develop proposals: • Developing a Holiday Hunger/Family Kitchen Model• Access to money / benefits advice in additional locations• Designing local interventions to create a healthier community

Stage 1analySed

data

Stage 2engaged with communitieS &

partnerS

Stage 3identified

outcomeS & prioritieS

Stage 4analySed exiSiting

planS

Stage 5identified

where there are gapS

Stage 6developed action plan

Stage 7implement booSter projectS(12-24

monthS)

Stage 8monitor and

evaluate progreSS

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FUTURE LOCALITY PLANSThe focus now turns to Banff & Macduff - the same engagement has to be carried out in the area as was done for Fraserburgh. There will be an analysis of available data and review of partners plans to identify the gaps to be addressed. We are also looking for forthcoming community events in the area to look at opportunities to undertake further engagement. The results will be considered by the Local Community Planning Group to help develop the Banff and Macduff Locality Plan and proposals to address the gaps will be developed in collaboration with local community planning partners. Peterhead, Fraserburgh and Banff & Macduff are referred to as “Tier One Areas”. Although the areas of Huntly, Inverurie South, and Turriff tend to experience better outcomes relative to Peterhead and Fraserburgh (in particular), there are tentative signs that some socio-economic indicators in these areas are worsening. These 3 areas are described as ‘Tier Two Areas’ – i.e. areas to watch. Huntly has one of the highest proportions of children in low income families outside of Peterhead and Fraserburgh; and a relatively large proportion of people are employment deprived. The median weekly income within certain Data Zones is also among the lowest in Aberdeenshire.

MOVING FORWARD

MOVING FORWARD

NEXT STEPSThis LOIP annual report has highlighted Aberdeenshire’s CPP’s progress since October 2017. Positive progress has been made across all of the CPP’s priorities, supported by examples of partnership working, leading to more positive outcomes for our communities. The development and implementation of community-led, bottom-up locality plans will allow the CPP to improve outcomes and tackle inequalities at a more local level. We will continue to strengthen our approach to community participation, ensuring communities are meaningfully involved in service design and enabling stronger, more integrated, inclusive and cohesive communities.The action plans for the LOIP priorities and the locality plans are evolving documents and will be reviewed annually to ensure they clearly contribute to delivery of their agreed outcomes.Measures will be clearly communicated and where improvements are achieved success will be celebrated. Where goals are not being achieved, solutions will be tested and developed.Work is currently being undertaken to develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Changing Aberdeenshire’s Relationship with Alcohol and Reducing Child Poverty priorities. These will be reported in the next and subsequent annual reports.

LOIP Reporting Period Annual Report Published

Oct 17 - Oct 18 March 19

March 18 - March 19 Oct 19

March 19 - March 20 Oct 20

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