Meeting Details

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

The minute of the meeting of the Community Planning Board dated 13 September 2018 was submitted for approval.

The minute was agreed as a true record of the meeting dated 13 September 2018.

The Board agreed that all actions from the September meeting had been completed.

A report by the Chief Executive, Moray Council, provided the Community Planning Partners with an overview of the development of plans for the delivery of the priorities in the Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP) and the performance management arrangements for the LOIP.

Following lengthy discussions, the Board agreed that:

1. the high level delivery plans set out in the LOIP will be accepted as the priority plans for the current year;
2. for the 2018 LOIP, performance reporting will be based largely on a narrative assessment of progress with use of limited evidence based indicators and case studies to support this where they are available.
3. the LOIP will be reviewed in early 2019 and the opportunity will be taken to ensure a sharp focus on improving outcomes where partnership adds value and to ensure robust measurable plans linked to those outcomes are developed during the review to enable effective performance management; and
4. the commitment to partnership working is renewed and that partners will ensure appropriate priority and resourcing is provided for community planning to enable LOIP actions to be progressed timeously.

A report by the Corporate Director (Corporate Services), Moray Council advised the Board of the progress of work on the locality plans proposed within the Moray 10 Year Plan (LOIP).

Ms Whitworth explained that the appendices were midway progress reports and further explained that as the work develops the consistency of the format will improve.

Following consideration the Board noted the progress and endorsed the planned next steps for work with communities to develop locality plans (as set out in Appendices 1 and 2).

A report by the Chief Executive, Moray Council asked the Board to consider and approve the Poverty Strategy.

Mr Burns apologised to the Board for updating members of Moray Council on the Strategy before the Board had had a chance to scrutinise it.

Councillor Morrison questioned whether Gypsy/Traveller families should be included in the list of priority population groups as listed on page 17 of the strategy.

In response, Mr Littlejohn informed the Board that the list of priority population groups was still in development and would add Gypsy/Traveller families and any other groups that the Board thought had been omitted.

Mr Findlay sought clarification on whether a breakdown of in work poverty figures for Moray and where Moray sits in relation to Scotland should be included.

Mr Burns indicated that those figures had been provided in the Poverty report submitted to the Board at the April meeting and confirmed he would forward a copy of the report to Mr Findlay.

Following lengthy discussion, the Board:

• considered and approved the attached Strategy, subject to the changes discussed;
• noted that the Fairer Moray Forum (FMF) will lead the development of an action plan using the matrix approach set out in the Strategy.  The development of the Action Plan will be a three step process:-
  
  
  • pre-population of the poverty matrix work has commenced on this process by a range of agencies and officers to identify through the FMF group;
  • a wide stakeholder workshop in January 2019 to review the pre-populated matrix and provide wider stakeholders to contribute additional details; and
  • a whole Community Planning Partnership event setting out the requirements of the action plan.

The proposed dates for the 2019 meetings were circulated and agreed by the Board.

The meetings will be held at 2.00pm on the following dates, venues to be confirmed:

• 13 February 2019
• 24 April 2019
• 19 June 2019
• 18 September 2019
• 13 November 2019

A press release to be written to promote the positive work which is on going with the Locality Plans.