Initial scoping meetings took place recently with the five local partnerships taking part in the 'Embedding an outcomes approach in tackling poverty and regeneration' project - Dumfries and Galloway, Falkirk, Fife, Midlothian and West Lothian. The purpose was to identify the main areas of support that the project will provide over the next year.
While each partnership has individual needs and requirements a number of common areas of support have emerged. These are:- developing an evidence based poverty profile for the Community Planning Partnership
- linking the poverty agenda to the Single Outcome Agreement, ensuring that key issues are prioritised
- reviewing the "fitness for purpose" of partnership working arrangements
- developing outcome focused action plans
- enhancing the understanding of the outcomes approach and communicating key messages
Project plans have been drawn up for each partnership, and these will be agreed by the end of May.
Andrew Noble, the project manager seconded from Renfrewshire Council, gave a presentation to the CoSLA Tackling Poverty Officers Working group on 12 May. Alongside working with individual partnerships, the project has a remit to develop key learning about the outcomes approach in the context of poverty and community regeneration and disseminate this as widely as possible, .
The first Learning Point from the project, Achieving outcomes through collaborative gain, has been published on the Community Regeneration and Tackling Poverty Learning Network. The Learning Point is the first in a series of papers and reports that will be produced over the life of the project.
