Community Planning Nationally
Community Planning is about public, private and voluntary organisations working together and with communities to improve services across Shetland and ensure they are tailored to your needs. It is about involving communities in the planning of the way we provide services to meet their needs; and public, private and voluntary agencies working more effectively together in order to do this. This process should enable improvements in the way public services are delivered.
Community planning cannot be an additional, or parallel, process to the various partnership structures already in place – it should act as the key over-arching framework for other partnerships and initiatives at the regional, local and neighborhood level.
The Local Government in Scotland Act, 2003 has placed a duty on local authorities across Scotland to initiate, maintain and facilitate Community Planning in their area and have responsibility to determine the means of consultation and co-operation. They are also required to invite and encourage all other public bodies in their area, and appropriate community bodies, to participate in Community Planning, tailored to suit the circumstances of each Community Planning partnership.
NHS Boards, Scottish Enterprise, Highland and Islands Enterprise, Joint Police Boards and Chief Constables and Joint Fire Boards have a duty to participate.
Single Outcome Agreement
- Shetland's Single Outcome Agreement
- Sustaining Shetland - January 2008
- Purpose and Format of SOA
- Scottish Government 2007 Spending Review
- Technical Notes on National SOA Indicators
Links to Legislations and Guidance
Links to other websites
http://www.communityplanning.net/
A good starting point providing easily accessible how to do best practice information.
http://www.communityplanning.org.uk
Community Planning implemntation group's website which contains information on legislation guidance and best practice.
http://www.communityplanning.org.uk/documents/ToolkitFinalVol1.pdf
Assessment of Partnership Toolkits final Report: Volume 1 - Approach, method and findings
http://www.communityplanning.org.uk/documents/ToolkitFinalVol2.pdf
Assessment of Partnership Toolkits final Report: Volume 2 - Summary of toolkits
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/web/site/home/Home.asp
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/otcs_006619.pdf
Integrating Social Inclusion Partnerships and Community Planning Partnership
http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpages/cs_007278.pdf
Illuminating practice: Case studies in community learning and development
http://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/default.asp?page=83
Making the links: Greenspace and the Partnership Agreement
Making the most of partnership working.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/planning/cbcp-00.asp
Capacity Building for Community Planning - A Report to the Community Planning Task Force
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/society/bcwm-02.asp
Building Community Well-being
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/localgov/pawbg-00.asp
The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/planning/frcp-00.asp
Final report of the Community Planning Task Force
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/socialresearch