Agendas, reports and minutes

A meeting of the Highland Community Planning Partnership Board will take place in the Council Chamber, Highland Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, on Thursday, 5 June 2014, at 10.00 a.m.

As a Community Planning Partner, you are invited to attend the Board meeting and a note of the business to be considered is below.

BUSINESS

1. Apologies

2. Minutes of Meetings        

i. Highland Public Services Partnership Performance Board

There are circulated for approval Minutes of the last Meeting held on 6 March 2014.

ii. Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Chief Officers Group

There are circulated for reference draft Notes of the last Meeting held on 29 April 2014.

3. Partnership Supported Self-Assessment

Ms Kathleen McLoughlin, Senior Project Manager, the Improvement Service, will give a presentation on Partnership Supported Self-Assessment and advise the Board members of the next steps to take to conduct the Partnership self-assessment.

4. Delivering Partnership Outcomes

The following updates are / will be provided by Responsible Officers against the current delivery plans for the Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) and on developing partnership working: 

i. Economic growth and recovery (HIE)   
ii. Employability (HC)      
iii. Early years/Children  (HC)     
iv. Safer and stronger communities (Police Scotland) 
v. Health inequalities and physical activity (NHSH) 
vi. Outcomes for older people (NHSH)   
vii. Environmental outcomes (SNH)    
viii. SOA Development Plan (HC)    

The Board is asked to scrutinise the progress reported.

5. Revisiting CPP Strategic Priorities

At its meeting held on 6 March 2014, the Board agreed that the five strategic priorities developed by the Chief Officers Group and recommended to that meeting be reviewed in the light of comments made, with a further report brought back to the Board.

There is circulated Report dated 26 May 2014 by the Director of Marketing, Communications and Planning, University of the Highlands and Islands, which proposes re-drafted strategic priorities for which the Chief Officers Group will take direct responsibility.

The Board is asked to endorse the strategic priorities proposed by the Chief Officers Group.

6. CPP Board Title

At its meeting held on 12 December 2013, the Board agreed that the Chief Officers’ Group consider a revised title for the Board, to reflect its wider leadership role in public service reform.  At its meeting held on 6 March 2014, the Board deferred consideration of a report on this matter.

There is circulated Report dated 27 May 2014 by the Head of Policy and Performance, the Highland Council, recommending that:

i. the various groups supporting the delivery of the SOA are all acknowledged as forming part of our Community Planning Partnership; and
ii. the Board is named as our Community Planning Board.

7. Community Learning and Development – Effective Partnership Action

At its meeting held on 6 March 2014, in light of the presentation from representatives of Education Scotland on The Requirements of Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 1913, the Board agreed that the Chief Officers Group consider the issues raised and that a further report be brought back to this Board on the implications of these Regulations for the work of the Partnership.

There is circulated Report dated 27 May 2014 by the Head of Community and Health Improvement Planning, NHS Highland, which reminds the Board of the content of the strategic guidance on Community Learning and Development (CLD) and the requirements of the inspection regime, and proposes a change of approach to ensure the Partnership is prepared to respond effectively to these requirements

The Board is asked to agree the formation of a CLD Strategic Partnership, with a structure and objectives as detailed in the report, reflecting discussion by the Chief Officer Group (item 2ii above refers).

8. CPP Prevention Plan – Annual Review

There is circulated Report dated 27 May 2014 by the Head of Policy and Performance, which advises the Board of the standing of the current Partnership Prevention Plan and confirms that the new £3.38m of investment in 2013/14 was committed and that work is needed to begin to understand the impacts of that investment, as well as the new resources for 2014/15.  The report also advises that a new partnership priority of joint resourcing is proposed by the Chief Officers Group, and that this Group can be tasked with developing options for extending preventative work across the partnership and on how best to measure its impact.

The Board is asked to:

i. note the status of the Partnership Prevention Plan and how it is perceived nationally and that investment was made to support it in 2013/14 and is available again in 2014/15; and
ii. agree that the Chief Officers Group is tasked to present the partnership approach to prevention going forward, how this might be expanded and monitored for impact, with a report back to a future Board meeting.

9. Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting will be held on 9 September 2014, in the Highland Council Headquarters, Inverness.