Minute of the Dundee Partnership Management Group
held on Friday, 12 February 2010
in Committee Room 1, 14 City Square, Dundee
Present:
Apologies:
David Dorward (Chair)
David Lynch
Kenneth Fraser
Eric Monaghan
Murray Webster
Alice Bovill
Eric Guthrie
Peter Williamson
Morna Wilson
Veronica Lynch
(representing Christina Potter)
Alan Mitchell
Gordon Macdougall
Daniel Kleinberg
Stewart Murdoch
Merrill Smith
Chris Ward
Peter Allan
Rod Crawford
Chris Johnstone
(representing Doreen Peat)
Gavin Robertson
Mike Galloway
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Dundee City Council
Dundee Community Health Partnership
Tayside Fire and Rescue
Dundee University
Community Regeneration Forum
Community Regeneration Forum
TACTRAN
NHS Tayside
DVA
Dundee College
Jim Collins
Christina Potter
Doreen Peat
Alan Baird
Jill Farrell
Lucy Rennie
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Education, DCC
Dundee College
Tayside Community Justice Authority
Social Work
Scottish Enterprise
Dundee CHP
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Leisure and Communities, DCC
Ashbrook Research Consultancy
In attendance:Sheila McMahon
David Brook
Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce
Skills Development Scotland
Scottish Government CYPSC
Leisure and Communities, DCC
Leisure and Communities, DCC
Corporate Planning, DCC
Corporate Planning, DCC
Corporate Planning, DCC
Tayside Community Justice Authority
Tayside Police
City Development, DCC
Action
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INTRODUCTIONS
David Dorward welcomed everyone and introduced Daniel Kleinberg,
our new Scottish Government representative.
Alice Bovill was
congratulated on being made Dundee Citizen of the Year.
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PRESENTATION - DUNDEE SOCIAL SURVEY 2009
David Brook from the Ashbrook Research Consultancy gave a full
report on the 2009 Dundee Social Survey concentrating for the
purpose of the presentation on the findings in the Community
Regeneration areas. He also made comments on the current gaps
between regeneration areas and the rest of Dundee.
His presentation slides and the report are attached to the minute.
These will also be placed on the Partnership website. The main
headings covered in the presentation are:
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Methodology
House and Neighbourhood
Neighbourhood Profile
House Profile
Neighbourhood and Services
Health
Education
Employment
Community Safety
Financial Questions
Conclusions
- Reduction in Gaps
- Continuing Significant Gaps
As can be seen from the presentation and report there were high levels
of satisfaction with home, neighbourhood and services. Some findings
seemed to indicate the potential difficulties of responses to
questionnaires e.g. the surprising high level of self-reported exercise
being taken over 5 days or more.
This survey built on previous work and for the first time asked
questions in relation to people's experience of feelings and thoughts.
As has happened previously there was a significant gap between
people's fear of crime and experience of crime, at 32% and 13%
respectively.
In examining areas where there was evidence of reducing gap
between regeneration areas and the rest of the city, house
improvements and satisfaction with the home figured, as well as lack of
facilities for youth and overall satisfaction with quality of life. Other
areas where there was a reducing gap included questions where the
respondent:
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had eaten 'three or less' fruit or vegetable portions the day before
the interview
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possessed O grade or equivalent as their highest qualification
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was in receipt of benefits
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had been a victim of crime in the last year
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had home contents insurance
Continuing significant gaps between regeneration areas and the rest of
the city were detailed in a number of areas. These included:
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perception of neighbourhoods as quiet and peaceful
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youth/gangs causing trouble and drug problems
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perception that neighbourhood had 'got better' over past 5 years
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satisfaction with phone boxes
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awareness of Community
Representative Structures
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degree of influence over decisions which affect neighbourhoods
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smoking levels
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fear of becoming a victim of crime
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ability to get hold of £500 at short notice
Councils
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Neighbourhood
In the discussion that followed it was agreed that the information
available could be used and distributed in various ways e.g.
information could be collated by specific community regeneration areas
to be fed into local community planning partnerships. Requests for
specific pieces of analysis that would be of interest to themes and
LCPPs should be fed through Peter Allan.
The report reflects research going back to 2006 (and in some cases
beyond this), and the final report includes a section detailing trends.
The point was made both in terms of community influence and the
impact of crime that there was often a difference between perception
and reality. In relation to actual and perceived crime it should be
possible to make comparisons between Dundee and the other major
cities.
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PRESENTATION - StobsWELLbeing INITIATIVE
Sheila McMahon, the Equally Well lead officer gave a presentation on
the StobsWELLbeing initiative linking into the national "Towards a
Mentally Flourishing Scotland" initiative.
The presentation slides are appended to the minute. As a national
priority, mental health and wellbeing is directly related to people's
ability to function in society. In taking on board the social and
economic consequences it is recognised that mental illness is more
common in deprived areas.
Dundee was chosen as a test site to work with identified strategic
priorities and test local delivery in the Stobswell area. The proposal for
Stobswell included the need to promote mental wellbeing in its
broadest sense to identify assets, influences and indicators and to
identify changes that will make a difference.
Support would be offered to make necessary changes and measure
the impact on community wellbeing. Although there are recognised
national indicators the project recognised the need to develop local
mechanisms to track progress.
The key areas of work for the test site were identified as:
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work with service providers
community engagement
social prescribing
mental health wellbeing
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measurement and outcomes
In developing the measurement and outcomes, Health Scotland has
assisted in the development of intermediate indicators for mental
wellbeing for use at the SOA level. The community in Stobswell was
assisted in identifying their own local indicators through the community
engagement process.
The test site funded the inclusion of the 7 question WEMWEBS scale
in the Dundee Partnership social survey which gave a baseline score
for mental wellbeing not only in Stobswell but across the city.
This work has also seen links with Health Scotland, Edinburgh
University and a range of local service providers to bring out logic
modelling and contribution analysis, to build on existing outcome
focused planning models.
Positives and negatives about living in Stobswell were identified as
well as perceptions of relevant indicators of wellbeing.
The contribution model given at the end of the presentation shows the
process undergone in Stobswell. Sheila identified that progress had
been made so far to the third box out of seven. The next stage is to
assist partners to make changes to ways of working by building
capacity for mental health improvement. Over the long term, these
changes will impact on indicators and influences, leading logically to
improved mental health and wellbeing.
The timescale for the project is two years initially, with a final report
due for March 2011. A recent ministerial visit has raised the possibility
of an extension to this timescale.
This presentation was a first stage of a report back to the Partnership
which eventually would allow for the lessons learned to be rolled out.
The results will influence the SOA and be sustained and transferred
through the LCPP process.
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MINUTE OF PREVIOUS MEETING
The minute of the previous meetings on Friday, 13 November 2009
and Thursday, 10 December 2009 were approved.
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MATTERS ARISING
5.1
Draft Dundee SOA Delivery Plan
The meeting between Doreen Peat and Peter Allan on how the
Criminal Justice Authority would fit into the SOA delivery process has
now been scheduled.
5.2
March 2010 Dundee Partnership Forum
A draft agenda had been circulated for the Forum in March which will
concentrate on renewable energy with Jill Farrell to chair the event.
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The event was supported by the Dundee and Angus Chamber of
Commerce and the need to join up the diverse opportunities in this
area was stressed.
5.3
Fairer Scotland Fund - Transition Update
The final decisions had been notified on 25 January 2010. There had
been two successful appeals, one from the Dighty project and a one off
grant for the Hilltown Childcare projects to help with the move towards
future sustainability.
The £100k employability funding that is to be put out to tender has
started and approvals will be handled through the Employability SubGroup chaired by Chris Ward, with decisions being fed into the
Partnership Co-ordinating Group.
In terms of the projects that had lost their funding, exit strategies were
being prepared for service users and staff. This will include an equality
impact assessment on the effects.
The process of developing three year contracts affords the partnership
and the themes an opportunity to streamline outputs and to
concentrate projects on what makes the biggest contribution to SOA
achievement.
5.4
Single Interface with Voluntary Sector
Morna Wilson tabled a paper on the single interface with the Voluntary
Sector. This is appended to the minute.
Morna outlined the rapid progress that had been made and it was
agreed to bring a final report signing off the establishment of the
interface to the Partnership Management meeting on 14 May 2010.
The organisations involved have worked rapidly to bring together
resources, make efficiencies and develop different ways of working to
seamlessly deliver a service. Agreement at the May Partnership
meeting will lead to the Scottish Government recognising Dundee as
having interface status from the second quarter of 2010-11, at which
time funding will be direct to the interface.
5.5
Best Value 2
A report on this could not be brought to the group as there had been
further changes in the report back timetable.
Although draft findings had been received there is still ongoing
discussion around factual inaccuracies and the interpretation of
evidence.
The Improvement Plan arising out of the process will now go to
5 March Co-ordinating Group, where it will be shared with partners.
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Two areas still under discussion were the pace of change in relation to
Child Protection and the level of member involvement in the
community planning process.
David Lynch offered support from the partners involved in the process
of resolving these issues.
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ALCOHOL AND DRUG PARTNERSHIP
David Lynch outlined progress in relation to the ADP. The second full
meeting of the group had reflected main principles and identified an
action plan. The establishment of a focus on alcohol framework in
Dundee had also been progressed.
A rapid move had been agreed to a live action plan, rather than
keeping it in draft form. This would evolve through the commitment
and participation of theme groups.
In terms of targets for the plan, meetings have been held already to
develop a proper performance system, which will evolve in relation to
the SOA.
The importance of community engagement was seen as being central
to the success of the plan.
A Focus on Alcohol approach will be a standing item for the ADP. The
recent meeting had learned from the input from Bill Harkins in Angus.
A model appropriate for Dundee will now be developed.
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SOA DELIVERY PLAN
The current version of the SOA delivery plan is recognised as crucial
but it had been seen as insufficiently prioritised to inform the
Management Group as to progress.
The plan had been reworked to include clear lines in terms of targets
and performance indicators in line with what was being asked for by
Audit Scotland in BV2. This was circulated for today's meeting.
The strengths of the new document were clarity about targets and
better monitoring and reporting channels.
The paper produced by Peter Allan asked the Management Group to
agree a revised model to develop a small basket of priorities, including
a summary, as key issues to be tracked on the monitoring database
and reported back to the Management Group. The Co-ordinating
Group would be remitted to streamline this process.
Further work is still to be done between Peter Allan and Jill Farrell to
benefit from the streamlining undertaken by Scottish Enterprise. This,
in particular in terms of improving risk management.
The streamlined version of the delivery plan would come back to the
Management Group at its meeting in May 2010.
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This approach was agreed, but a number of speakers warned of the
danger of concentrating exclusively on what could be measured. The
need to develop the renewable sector was cited as an example here,
in that at present there was little to measure and most of the area was
potential. This made it no less a priority for the Partnership.
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8.1
Community Learning and Development Strategy
Neil Gunn had circulated the final draft and this was endorsed.
8.2
Final Meeting
As elections are in the offing for Community Regeneration
representatives Murray Webster expressed his thanks for all the
constructive work the Partnership had contributed to the regeneration
areas.
David Dorward in turn thanked current community regeneration
representatives for their massive contribution.
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DATE OF NEXT MEETING
Friday, 14 May 2010 at 2.00 pm, Committee Room 1, 14 City Square,
Dundee.
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