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