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Contact: Samantha Somers 01546 604464
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Welcome and Apologies (Chair) Minutes: Paul welcomed everyone to
the meeting and noted apologies as above. Minutes of the last
meeting were agreed. |
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Actions from meeting held on the 26th June 2019 PDF 88 KB Minutes: Paul has circulated a paper from Jacobs regarding
Transport Scotland for the committee to read through. Fuller consultation from
Jacobs will follow in due course. Evidence on road closures – Pippa had no additional
feedback to add but noted partners have taken part in a stakeholder group. Volunteering and labour market strategy – Kirsteen
noted Volunteering is moving forward under Outcome 3 but the DWP / labour
market part has not yet moved forward. DWP did attend the outcome group meeting
but this item was not covered. Action
– this is to remain: DWP Rural Strategy,
DWP and TSI discussions regarding
volunteering and the labour market strategy. Child poverty – Progress in an action plan is an
item on the agenda for today. Councillor Currie asked who could provide an
update on this. Cleland advised it is Mandy Sheridan. Action
– Samantha to contact Mandy Sheridan regarding clarification of data that 24%
of employees are in receipt of less than the minimum wage. CPP to share emails for Members of Scottish Youth
Parliament – Paul not actioned yet but this can be shared after meeting. Action
– CPPadmin to share emails of MYSPs with CPP Management Committee. Case studies – These have now been passed to
Samantha and the action is complete. Updates on the actions were agreed by the
committee. |
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Update from Area Community Planning Group, Shona Barton - Area Committee Manager PDF 105 KB Minutes: Meetings were held in August across all areas. Ian
Brodie was appointed as Chair of the Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area
Community Planning Group with Andy Buntin serving as
Vice Chair for a one year period to assist with the handover. The MAKI CPG raised an issue of communication
between those responsible for carrying out speed surveys and the area groups.
Pippa Milne advised that there were a number outstanding at the moment and that
results were published to the local Area Committee once carried out. It was
noted that there was a waiting list for the surveys and limited equipment
available. It was noted that there had been issues with identifying the correct
council officer to approach to receive an update from and Pippa will liaise
with Shona further regarding this. Action
– Pippa to provide details of Officers who look after speed surveys to Shona. Paul asked Shona for more detail on the perceived
lack of attendance at the MAKI CPG. It was noted that there were few partners
round the table in Inveraray and that there was an issue of attendees only
staying for their item and then leaving. Councillor Currie voiced concerns regarding IT
issues when attending ACPG meetings from other locations. Police Scotland and
Argyll College UHI both offered their facilities to assist with VC. Action
– Shona and Paul to look at attendance in MAKI, and other areas, and possible
solutions to overcome IT issues. |
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Minutes: The draft work programme of the National Community
Planning Improvement Board was presented to the Management Committee. Kirsteen Murray advised that that there was an
action being led by the TSI in Edinburgh but there had been no mention of this
at TSI Chief Officer meetings which suggests that there is some disconnect.
Similarly, Mark Newlands is not aware of any work on the actions noted against
Scottish Enterprise. Councillor Morton advised that she had concerns around the
deliverability of some of the actions within the timescales of the report,
particularly if local partners have no knowledge of them. Cleland provided a number of comments and concerns
across the themes. He felt there was a risk that of workstreams
becoming advisory and largely ignored and was keen to see real actions
identified, resourced and delivered. It was agreed that a response be put to
the National Board. Action
– Rona to provide response to National Board based upon Cleland’s feedback |
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CPP Full Partnership - frequency of meetings - Rona Gold, Community Planning Manager PDF 87 KB Minutes: It was agreed by the Board to hold the CPP Full
Partnership at a minimum of every two years. |
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Progress on Place Standard Engagement - Samantha Somers, Community Planning Officer Minutes: An update was given by
Samantha with a document tabled on the day of the demographic breakdown of the
place standard response results to date.
The statutory requirement
to these plans was noted and the Committee was refreshed on what had been
agreed previously and the proposed timetable moving forward. The commitment to
making the full information available to communities and partners for their own
use was reiterated. It was noted that 801
responses had been received to date across 73 communities with a wide range of
mediums being used to engage with the community. Suggestions from the
Management Committee to boost numbers included and were agreed to:
Lucinda asked if there
was an example from the last year which could highlight what the action plans
have achieved. Samantha advised that the last consultation had flagged up an
issue on availability of services for those with learning or physical disabilities
and the transition between High School and Adult Services. The HSCP worked with
the Third Sector and now Oban Youth Café provide a weekly session specifically
for those affected by this. Cleland highlighted the
importance of community-led action plans being connected to the community
planning structure and asked about the anticipated relationship with these
results. Samantha responded saying that using existing actions from
community-led action plans and having partners support the community to deliver
these actions was actively being explored.
Councillor Currie asked
Rona to send a notice in plain English to the Committee about the tool with
links so that it could be sent out by the Management Committee to their
contacts. Action – Rona to send information on Place Standard
Tool to committee for onward distribution by them to contacts. |
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Minutes: Kirsteen was representing Outcome 3 today in the
absence of the Outcome Lead and Deputy. A meeting had been held since the last
Management Committee meeting to determine the priority actions for Outcome 3
for the coming year. Kirsteen spoke and advised of the new priority
actions and they were agreed. Councillor Morton asked whether the actions for the
next year focused on community learning and development rather than core
education. Rona advised that item 1 of the plan had actions which linked to
economic development and education. The Early Years team had also been present
at the meeting in June and were happy with the proposed actions. |
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Minutes: Rona advised that CPP’s are required to publish a
Children’s Rights Report for 2017 to 2020 on what is working well for young
people in the area and where there are challenges. Rosie requested that the MSYPs and young people be involved
in producing the report. It was agreed that the ownership for this report be
delegated to the Outcome 4 Leads: Alex Taylor and Patricia Renfrew, and the
Argyll and Bute Children’s Strategic Group, engaging with the MSYPs and all 8
High Schools. It was also agreed that a draft report come to the
CPP Management Committee for approval between March and December 2020. Action
- Outcome lead 4 to involve MYSPs and High Schools with progress of Children’s
Rights report and MYSPs to share information with the board. Action
- Argyll and Bute’s Children Strategic Group to focus on the production of the
report, ownership and process. |
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Child Poverty Update (verbal) - Rona Gold, Community Planning Manager Minutes: Rona advised that action
leads had not yet been identified for taking forward the delivery of actions
within the Child Poverty strategy. It was noted that the meeting of the Outcome
Leads would be looking in more detail at this and that the Management Committee
required to be kept informed of progress. Action - Paul noted this is to be discussed at
today’s outcome leads and the results of those discussions and any progress can
be looked at the next management committee meeting. Councillor Currie noted
there are 3000 children in poverty in our area and this has to be addressed
with a plan of action on how we can eradicate child poverty in Argyll &
Bute. He felt the CPP was the ideal body to address this. |
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Minutes: Rona presented the draft response to the CPP
Management Committee. Cleland advised that he felt all the thematic areas could
only be delivered in partnership and suggested the “partnership” theme be
replaced with “community wellbeing.” It was noted that Argyll and Bute has
relatively low criminality but high vulnerability and welfare issues which
require resource from the Police. The response will be amended as per above and the
consultation responded to. Action
– Rona to amend the response to reflect that partnerships is an underpinning
theme rather than a main header |
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Engagement - Rona Gold, Community Planning Manager Minutes: A discussion was held on the use
of hashtags and social media. It was noted that the MSYPs used #abcpp and #abgetinvolved. It was
noted that #abplace2b was the main hashtag for Argyll and Bute. It was agreed to use the above 3
hashtags for any social media promotion about the CPP. Rona asked about the paper that
came to the June Management Committee meeting on engagement and specifically
the “you said we did” offer to post consultation responses of partners on the
council website. Rona asked whether this had been utilised by any partners or
whether any further information was required. It was noted that some partners
had concerns over this approach and the management of expectations. ACTION
- Partners to feedback concerns and questions on this to Jane Jarvie. MYSPs advised that they use
Instagram regularly. Cleland advised that the council has an Instagram site. It
is currently being used for a different promotional purpose but it can be
utilised for other information and that messages need to be amended for each
social media platform to capture the biggest audience. Ralph noted that the Scottish Government are using
a digital marketing company to test similar versions of same message across
different social media platforms to get feedback on what works best. Ralph is
happy to share the results of this once the process is complete. Action
– Ralph to share outcomes of social media testing. 12. AOCB
Paul noted that the recent Fire Service Statutory
Consultation has now closed and he thanked anyone who provided feedback. He
noted there had been 259 responses nationally. Paul thanked everyone for attending today and the
date of the next meeting was noted as Wednesday 4th December in the
Three Villages Hall, Arrochar. |