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NORTH AYRSHIRE COUNCIL 
21 September 2022   
Council 
Title:    North Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Board:
Minutes of Meetings held in June and September 2022 
Purpose:  To submit the Minutes of the meeting of the North Ayrshire
Community Planning Partnership Board held on 23 June 2022
and 1 September 2022. 
Recommendation:  That Council the Council notes the Minutes contained in
Appendices 1 and 2. 
1. Executive Summary 
1.1 This It was previously agreed that the Minutes of the Community Planning Partnership
(CPP) Board be submitted to North Ayrshire Council for information. The key matters
arising from the minutes have been highlighted for the attention of Council and are
detailed in Section 2.1. 
2. Background 
2.1 Minutes of the meeting of the CPP Board held on 23 June 2022 and 1 September
2022 are appended. Particular matters for the Council's attention include the following: 
Meeting of 23 June 2022 
Agenda Item 3
CPP partners received an update on Spatial Planning which considered the challenge
of aligning approaches and how organisations and communities can best engage with
Planning. 
Agenda Item 4
Partners considered the potential of KA Leisure in delivering broader community health
and wellbeing outcomes, in relation to the Local Outcomes Improvement Plan’s
Wellbeing priority. 
Agenda Item 5
A progress report on the development of the Community Engagement Centre of
Excellence was presented.

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Agenda Item 6
CPP partners received an overview report on Community and Locality Planning and
discussed the implementation of the new Local Outcomes Improvement Plan, noting
the plans in relation to the community directory. 
Meeting of 1 September 2022 
Agenda Item 4
An overview of the work of the North Ayrshire Local Employability Partnership, the key
delivery group for the Local Outcomes Improvement Plan Work priority, was presented.
This links with the Scottish Government strategy for employability ‘No One Left Behind’. 
Agenda Item 5
CPP Partners received an update on the Caring for Ayrshire programme focusing the
drivers for change, key priorities and the importance of population health benefits,
collaboration & partnership working. 
Agenda Item 6
CPP partners received an overview of child poverty in North Ayrshire and the current
work of the Child Poverty Board, which is led on by North Ayrshire Council and the NHS.
The first action is to review how Council services are accessed locally. This will include
partner and community workshops to identify where improvements can be made. 
Agenda Item 7
The CPP Senior Officer’s Group recently attended a LOIP development workshop . The
presentation identified the key progress made on LOIP governance, priorities and
performance arrangements. 
3. Proposals 
3.1 That the Council notes the Minutes contained in Appendices 1 and 2
4. Implications/Socio-economic Duty 
Financial 
4.1   None. 
Human Resources 
4.2 None. 
Legal 
4.3 None. 
Equality/Socio-economic 
4.4 None. 
Environmental and Sustainability 
4.5  None.

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Key Priorities 
4.6 The CPP activities detailed within this report support the Local Outcomes Improvement
Plan. 
Community Wealth Building 
4.7 None. 
5. Consultation 
5.1 No consultation was required.   
Audrey Sutton
Executive Director (Communities & Education) 
For further information please contact Jacqui Greenlees, Interim Senior Manager
(Policy, Performance and Community Planning), on 01294 324415. 
Background Papers
Appendix: 1 CPP Board Minutes, 23 June 2022
Appendix: 2 CPP Board Minutes, 01 September 2022

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Community Planning Partnership Board 
Thursday 23 June 2022 at 11.00 am 
Via Microsoft Teams 
Present 
North Ayrshire Council 
Cllr Marie Burns, Elected Member (Chair)
Cllr John Bell, Elected Member
Cllr Timothy Billings, Elected Member
Cllr Scott Davidson, Elected Member
Cllr Alan Hill, Elected Member
Cllr Shaun Macaulay, Elected Member
Craig Hatton, Chief Executive 
Audrey Sutton, Executive Director 
Rhona Arthur, Head of Service 
North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership 
Caroline Cameron, Director 
DWP
Peter Glen, 
NHS Ayrshire and Arran 
Lesley Bowie, Chair NHS Ayrshire & Arran Board (Vice Chair) 
Claire Burden, Chief Executive 
Ruth Mellor, Consultant in Public Health 
Police Scotland 
Chief Superintendent Faroque Hussain 
Scottish Enterprise 
Theresa Correia, Senior Manager 
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Ian McMeekin, Area Manager 
Scottish Government
Sam Anson, Location Director 
Skill Development Scotland 
Paul Zealey, Skills Planning Lead 
Scottish Partnership for Transport 
Allan Comrie, Senior Transport Planner 
In Attendance
Jacqui Greenlees (NAC), Malcolm McPhail (KA Leisure), Anne-Marie Hunter (NAC), Alistair
Gemmell (NAC), Jennifer McGee (NAC), 
Apologies 
Karen Yeomans (NAC), Sheila Lynn (DWP), Robert Martin (NHS Ayrshire & Arran), Cllr Amanda
Kerr (NAC), Loraine Tulloch (KA Leisure), Anne Todd (KA Leisure)

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1.  Welcome and Apologies  
The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and apologies for absence were noted.   
2.  Minute of the Previous Meeting and Action Note 
The minutes of the Board meeting held on 3 March 2022 were approved. 
3.  Spatial Planning   
Alistair Gemmell provided the Board with a presentation which provided an overview of
Spatial Planning.
The presentation highlighted: 
• What planning is and what is for.
• The implementation of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019. The Act looks at:
• Strong and flexible development plans
• The delivery of more high-quality homes
• An infrastructure first approach to planning and development
• Efficient and transparent development management
• Stronger leadership, smarter resourcing and sharing of skills
• Collaboration rather than conflict – inclusion and empowerment
• Development Planning, this means decisions on planning applications made in
accordance with the Development Plan, unless material considerations indicate
otherwise.
• The National Planning Framework (NPF). This is a long-term spatial plan for
Scotland.  NPF4, which will look to 2045 and has increased status as part of the
Development Plan. The four main themes of NPF 4 are:
• Sustainable Places
• Liveable places 
• Productive Places 
• Distinctive Places  
• The legislation states the requirement of a Regional Spatial Strategy. It is intended
that joint work with both East and South Ayrshire Council will be undertook. This
work will also introduce the right for communities to prepare Local Place Plans.
• Changes to Local Development Plans (LDP) should and how they should be:
• Delivery Focused
• Place Based
• People Centred
• LPD are currently prepared every 5 years, however they will be moving on to a
process that will see them bring updated every 10 years so that it increases the
lifespan on the LDP going forward.
• The indicative LDP 3 timeline.
• Local Place Plans. These are a proposal as to the development or use of land and
must be prepare by a community body. Once submitted and then registered by the
planning authority, Local Place Plans are to be taken into account in the preparation
of the relevant local development plan
• The links between LDP and Community Planning. 
Audrey Sutton thanked A Gemmell for his update and highlighted that discussions have
taken place with partners regarding a potential conference in the Autumn and the
possibility of revisiting community and spatial planning at this conference. A Sutton

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commented that the conference would also give Place Making the visibility it deserves and
the community planning landscape.   
The Chair commented that she agrees that this would be a good topic. The Chair also
highlighted her concerns regarding the change of LDPs moving to 10-year plans. 
A Gemmell welcomed being involved in the autumn conference.
Cllr Bell asked A Gemmell about the concept of 20-minute neighbourhoods and how does
he see this relating to more semi-rural areas of North Ayrshire.  A Gemmell advised that
this is a newer concept, and it is ultimately about sustainability and local living ensuring
facilities and open spaces are close to where people live.   
Alan Comrie highlighted the impact working from home will have on spatial planning. A
Comrie asked how the wider spatial planning strategy will work with local and regional
transport strategies. 
A Gemmell highlighted that transport plans are taken in to account of when preparing
LDP3. In terms of bus networks issue, this is not something LDP has a direct influence
over, however it is something that would potentially shape the LDP going forward. 
Ruth Mellor commented that she would appreciate to meet with A Gemmell regarding the
processes that are already affective and improved with smaller plans. 
Cllr Macaulay asked A Gemmell in terms of the Regional Spatial Plan, what the process
will look like when linking in with the other Local Authorities? 
A Gemmell advised that the three Ayrshire Council’s have met to prepare an indicative
Regional Spatial Strategy in 2020, the purpose behind that was to inform NPF 4. A
Gemmell commented that there is a need to develop a governance structure for how the
Regional Spatial Strategy will be brought forward in Ayrshire. 
Cllr Hill highlighted that in terms of LDP and how it affects the Islands, there is probably a
different island dimension. Cllr Hill advised that he would like to discuss offline with A
Gemmell. 
The Chair thanked A Gemmell for his update and highlighted the importance of the
communities being an active part of this work, 
4. KA Leisure   
Malcolm McPhail and Colin Glencourse provided the Board with a presentation on KA
Leisure’s Health and Wellbeing Company.
The presentation highlighted:
• The vision of KA Leisure is to transition from traditional leisure services to be the first
Community Health & Wellbeing Company in Scotland supporting people to move more
and engage in physical activity and sport, and to maximise the contribution leisure
provides to health and wellbeing.
• They are looking at a place- based approach and how physical activity is an intervention
to support public health, address and manage health conditions, engage with
communities, and reduce inequalities.   
• The Community Health and Wellbeing Company will allow KA Leisure to work more
collaboratively to co-design a more responsive needs based led service model that gives
the opportunity to deliver wellbeing, health care and rehab services. 
• The current model for this work will see the:
• Creation of steering group to look at governance

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• Creation of an Inaugural Board which will measure, decide and assess the
chosen strategy
• Creation of a working group which will charged with either deploying an initial
testing period of delivery or creating the delivery of the Community Health and
Wellbeing Company. 
• Creation of a delivery team which will include KA Leisure staff, secondments and
potentially new posts to help deliver the model.
• The Inaugural Board will be become the Community Health and Wellbeing
Board.
• The other option would be to adapt the current KA Leisure Board or have an
alliance/federal model which defines how an alliance is managed, how it is organised
and regulated by agreements and processes. It also defines how partners control and
influences its evaluation and processes 
A Sutton commented that sharing ownership and governance of their direction of travel is
unknown with other leisure trusts and that this is huge step forward. A Sutton also
commented that both Malcolm McPhail and Colin Glencourse have been having
conversations with individuals who have come forward to be part of the steering group. 
Claire Burden commented that this is a very positive piece of work and that NHS Ayrshire &
Arran would be happy to be part of discussions. 
Faroque Hussain commented that he is keen that Police Scotland are part of this steering
group as this ties in with Police Scotland’s wellbeing work. 
Caroline Cameron highlighted that HSCP are keen to be a key partner in this work is looking
forward to seeing this work develop. 
The Chair thanked M McPhail and C Glencourse for their update. 
5. Community Engagement Centre of Excellence 
Anne-Marie Hunter provided the Board with a presentation on the Community Engagement
Centre Excellence. 
The presentation highlighted:  
A Hunter highlighted that initial work to develop a consultation guidance document by a short
life working group started in March 2018, with a view to the development of a ‘Centre of
Excellence’ for consultation and engagement including a bank of trained staff and an online
engagement hub. 
129 staff completed Consultation Institute training between 2015 and 2018, with an audit of staff
being completed in early 2018. Since training completion, 38% of participants stated they have
used their training while 24% of participants no longer work for the Council or partner agency.
A Hunter also highlighted that the four key objectives of the Community Engagement Centre of
Excellence are:
• Develop an online Engagement Hub 
• Departmental Engagement Champions
• Centre for Excellence Steering Group
• Development of an online Toolkit 
A Hunter highlighted that in terms of next steps, the team will be finalising and publish online
resources. There will be a Consultation Institute training top up.

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Jacqueline Greenlees shared the online toolkit with the Board and advised them that should
anyone from their organisations wish to become a member of the Community Engagement
Network (CEN) to get in touch. 
Cllr Billings asked whether the Community Councils are involved in the CEN. J Greenlees
advised that there are currently no Community Council representatives on the CEN, however
she would welcome their attendance.
A Sutton commented that this is a good example of how we have built in sustainability to
something that was in the first instance was supported by external partners. 
The Chair thanked A Hunter and J Greenlees for their update. 
6. Community & Locality Planning Overview   
J Greenlees provided the Board with a report which update on a range of partnership
development and governance matters. 
The report highlighted: 
• LOIP Action Planning, performance management and reporting and delivery structures.
The CPP Senior Officers Group will be holding a workshop to discuss the delivery
structures
• Community Directory – The procurement of a product is being progressed with the
ambition that it will be hosted on the Community Planning website. 
• Updated of the Terms of Reference and Risk Register which were circulated previously. 
The Chair thanked J Greenlees for her update. 
7. Partner Discussion and Sharing on Key Developments and Opportunities
Scottish Fire and Rescue – Ian McMeekin highlighted that the SFRS are carrying out a
consultation for the new Strategic Plan.  He also highlighted that there will be a need for the
Local Fire and Rescue Plans to be renewed.  
Skills Development Scotland – Paul Zealey highlighted that the Ayrshire wide Regional Skills
Investment Plan was approved by the Ayrshire Economic Joint Committee on Monday. P Zealey
advised that he will send a link to the Community Planning Team once this has been published. 
P Zealey also conveyed his thanks to those involved in this work.
Scottish Partnership for Transport – Alan Comrie highlighted that the Regional Transport
Strategy that SPT are drafting will go live for consultation shortly. A Comrie encouraged
everyone to read and respond where appropriate. 
Department for Work and Pensions - Peter Glen advised that a Job Fair was held in Volunteer
Rooms, Irvine yesterday. 37 employers were in attendance with more than 400 customers
attending on the day. 
North Ayrshire HSCP – Caroline Cameron highlighted that the National Care Service Bill was
published earlier this week. C Cameron advised that she is happy to bring further updates to
the Board as things progress.  The Chair welcomed this. 
North Ayrshire Council - A Sutton advised that the North Ayrshire Tackling Child Poverty Board
will hold its first meeting next week. This Board is chaired by Cllr Marie Burns. A Sutton
highlighted that regular updates will be brought to the CPP Board.

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8. AOCB
No other business was discussed. The Chair conveyed her thanks to everyone in attendance.   
9. Date of next Meeting 
The next meeting of the North Ayrshire CPP Board will be held on Thursday 1 September 2022
at 11.00 am via Microsoft Teams.

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Community Planning Partnership Board 
Thursday 1 September 2022 at 11.00 am 
Via Microsoft Teams 
Present 
North Ayrshire Council 
Cllr Marie Burns, Elected Member (Chair)
Cllr John Bell, Elected Member
Cllr Timothy Billings, Elected Member
Cllr Scott Davidson, Elected Member
Cllr Shaun Macaulay, Elected Member
Craig Hatton, Chief Executive 
Audrey Sutton, Executive Director 
Rhona Arthur, Head of Service 
North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership 
Caroline Cameron, Director 
DWP
Sheila Lynn, Service Leader 
NHS Ayrshire and Arran 
Lesley Bowie, Chair NHS Ayrshire & Arran Board (Vice Chair) 
Claire Burden, Chief Executive 
Ruth Mellor, Consultant in Public Health 
Police Scotland 
Chief Superintendent Faroque Hussain 
Scottish Enterprise 
Brian Connolly, Engagement Partner 
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Ian McMeekin, Area Manager 
Skill Development Scotland 
Paul Zealey, Skills Planning Lead 
Scottish Partnership for Transport 
Allan Comrie, Senior Transport Planner 
In Attendance
Jacqui Greenlees (NAC), Laura Neill (NAC), Cllr Margaret Johnson (NAC), J McGee (NAC),
Sally Amor (NHS) 
Apologies 
Karen Yeomans (NAC), Robert Martin (NHS Ayrshire & Arran), Carol Turnbull (Ayrshire
College), Craig Hatton (NAC), Kaileigh Brown (TSI), Sam Anson (Scottish Government), Cllr
Alan Hill (NAC) 
1.  Welcome and Apologies  
The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and apologies for absence were noted.

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2.  Minute of the Previous Meeting and Action Note 
The minutes of the Board meeting held on 23 June 2022 were approved. 
3.  Local Employability Partnership 
Laura Neill provided the Board with an update on the Local Employability Partnership (LEP). 
The key aim of the LEP is to improve skills for employment and to reduce unemployment in
North Ayrshire. The LEP are the strategic delivery group who feed into the Local Outcomes
Improvement Plan Work priority. 
The North Ayrshire LEP have approved a 3-year delivery plan (2022 – 2025). This is a national
framework provided by the Scottish Government with delivery on a localised approach and has
annual operating plans. The annual operating plans provide the opportunity to take account of
changes within the labour market and circumstances to ensure the right services are being
delivered in North Ayrshire. 
L Neill advised that the LEP Working Groups meet on a weekly basis to make sure the key
challenges are being focussed on. A provider forum has also been established and is chaired
by Skills Development Scotland. There are currently around 20 different providers part of this
forum. The LEP meet on a six-weekly basis. 
The LEP focus on three priority groups, these have been identified as:
• Young people - particularly 18-24 years old who are not in employment, education or
training, care experienced young people, and young people at risk to not go on to
positive destinations 
• People with disabilities and long-term health conditions
• Inclusive growth – Parents, specifically lone parent, parents who are disabled or have a
family member who is disabled, parents with 3 or more children, minority ethnics, parents
with children under 1 years old, parents under the age of 25 and also long term
unemployed
L Neill highlighted that the unemployment rate in North Ayrshire is 4.7% (Scotland rate is 3.7%).
North Ayrshire has the second highest rate in Scotland and youth unemployment rates in North
Ayrshire is at 7.1% and is the highest in Scotland. 
The sharpest reduction has been 2.9% reduction for 25–49-year-olds in recent months, there
has been an increase in paid work experience for this age group through the Long Term
Unemployment Programme and the Council’s Skills for Life programme – both had additional
places funded through the COVID recovery fund.
North Ayrshire has the lowest employment rate in Scotland (67.3%). The team are working with
employers to create fair work through Ayrshire Growth Deal Fair Work Ayrshire and are offering
a wide range of support to employers to address recruitment challenges, improve wages
through paying the national living wage rate.
The Chair commented that this links work in with the work the Council are doing around Child
Poverty and the Cost-of-Living Crisis. 
Cllr Billings asked from a geographical perspective if the team were looking at rural and island
gaps. L Neill advised Cllr Billings that the team do look at the stats and hey have been linking
in with the Island Plan and through the new LEADER replacement funding they are looking at
how they can better support people on the islands. Cllr Billings welcomed this and offered to
support where necessary.
Cllr Bell asked in terms of reduction in unemployment figures for 25–49-year-olds, how many
people are now in employment and how many are on places that were created through the new
funding.  L Neill advised that the team were tasked by Scottish Government to create 65 job

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opportunities, however they are looking at creating around 70 jobs to allow funding to be
maximised.  L Neill also advised that 3,800 people are unemployed in North Ayrshire: 
• 745 are aged 16-24
• 2080 are aged 25-49
• 975 are 50+ 
• There are also an additional 8,370 people who are inactive with a health condition 
Cllr Davidson asked L Neill is it would be possible to share the up-to-date employment and
unemployment figures for the Kilwinning area for the various age groups.  Cllr Bell and the Chair
commented that it would be useful for this information for all six of the localities.  L Neill
undertook to provide this information for the six locality areas.
R Arthur asked about the role for communities in this work and what more the team can do with
local connections. R Arthur also highlighted that it can be hard for local organisations to recruit
the workforce that they need. 
L Neill advised that there is work being undertaken on how to better communicate with
communities through the Locality Partnerships. In terms of Council vacancies, the team have
been working with Facilities Management and identified 50 customers who were interested in
those opportunities. Interviews were conducted and then if those candidates were successful w
then the recruitment process will be implemented. The team have also carried out a pilot with
the Care at Home Team and nine parents who expressed interest in this field previously.
Following a focus group with the Care at Home team and the nine parents, they have adjusted
the working day to meet the requirements of the parents, who then went on to do work
experience.  Eight of the parents gained employment and one went on to further education. The
Team is now looking at how we share good practice with the NHS and continuing to work with
the HR Team. 
Brian Conolly commented that there is a role within the framing of Community Wealth Building
to look at this beyond financials and recognising the challenges regarding how people access
employability. It is extremely encouraging to hear this work being under way. 
The Chair thanked L Neill for her input. 
Actions: L Neill to provide the up-to-date employment and unemployment figures for
each of the various age groups at a locality level. 
4. Caring For Ayrshire   
Claire Burden provided the Board with a presentation on Caring for Ayrshire.
C Burden advised the Board that Caring for Ayrshire focuses on working together to achieve
the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire.  The four themes of Caring for Ayrshire are:
• Our people
• Our communities
• Restoring our services
• Investing in digital 
There are six drivers for change, which are very focussed on restoration. These are: 
• Shifting the emphasis away from hospital-based care
• Securing service sustainability 
• Limitations of existing structure 
• Improving access to health and care services 
• Supporting regional working
• Changing demographics 
C Burden highlighted the importance of population health benefit and collaboration &
partnership working. C Burden commented that collaboration & partnership working is very
prominent in Ayrshire and is keen to build partnerships further.

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In terms of Community Wealth Building, NHS Ayrshire and Arran are an anchor organisation
and aim to align procurement, fair employment and shared land and assets. These are an
important part of Caring for Ayrshire. 
In terms of Implementing Caring for Ayrshire the team will be: 
• Developing health and care models 
• Developing workforce model/planning 
• Developing informing and engagement plans 
• Recruitment of additional staff/resources and development of associated
workplans 
C Burden highlighted that there will be launch of Caring for Ayrshire and the team will be hosting
events.  The team are also happy to attend planned events being held by partners.
The next steps for Caring for Ayrshire are: 
• Priorities – clarifying locality bases priorities
• Using data and modelling – scenario planning for service change
• Collaboration- work with internal and external stakeholders to design the model 
• Engagement – ongoing programme of engagement
Cllr Macaulay commented that there is a need to re-think how we deliver health care digitally
within our communities. Cllr Macaulay highlighted that the Irvine Locality Partnership, upskilling
people on the use of digital technology and how this can benefit our communities has been front
and centre and is important to rural communities. The risk would be making people feel isolated
if they are not confident is using technology, however this where we can work together. Cllr
Macaulay is keen to see how this can be embedded at a locality level. 
C Cameron highlighted that a report went to the North Ayrshire IJB in March 2022 which outlines
the priorities in North Ayrshire.  C Cameron advised that she would arrange for this report to be
circulated to the Board and would be happy to discuss this item further at a future Board
meeting. 
R Arthur highlighted that in terms of Cumbrae there are many challenges on the island and the
support of the health needs of it also. 
The Chair thanked C Burden for her input. 
Action: C Cameron to circulate March IJB Report 
5.  Child Poverty 
Audrey Sutton provided the Board with a presentation on Child Poverty. 
A Sutton advised the Board that one of the current Scottish Government priorities is to support
progress toward meeting child poverty targets.  The Act sets in place robust requirements to lift
140,000 children out of relative poverty by 2030 – reducing levels from 24% to 10%
The recently published Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022-26
gives a clear direction on how we can and will focus resources. The action areas for 2022-26
are:
• To enter, sustain and progress in work
• Maximising the support available for families to lead dignified lives and meet their basic
needs 
• Supporting the next generation to thrive 
A Sutton also highlighted the differences between relative and absolute poverty.

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A Sutton advised that the drivers of reduction of child poverty link closely to the themes identified
by the Government and the importance of the whole systems requirement to bring everything
together to make a difference.  The drivers are:
• Income from employment 
• Cost of living
• Income from social security and income in kind
In 2019/20 the rate of child of poverty in North Ayrshire was 27.9%, this was the second highest
in Scotland. The latest assessment shows that in 2021 there is 24.7% of children living in poverty
in North Ayrshire. However, it should be noted that this this decrease is unusual due to the
impact of the pandemic and the figures are caveated.  In North Ayrshire 20.8% of children are
living in relevant poverty and 16.8% are living in absolute poverty. 
A further report will be brought to the Board around the collective work of the UNCRC Board. 
The North Ayrshire the Child Poverty Report and Action Plan were approved by Scottish
Government in June 2022. The Cabinet approved the set-up Child Poverty Board. This is being
led by North Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire & Arran. This was welcomed by the Scottish
Government.
A Strategic Action Template has been created and is made up of four key steps which are:
1. Agree Themes – No wrong door and employability.
2. Initial workshop – initial face to face sessions where the focus will be on three
key questions; - What are we doing well? What can we improve on? and Where
are the gaps? The first workshop took place earlier this week and focussed on
no wrong door.
3. Mini-enquiry – this will involve communities and third sector partners.
4. Development of the strategic actions – the Child Poverty Board will consider
the output reports from steps 2 and 3. 
The Chair conveyed her thanks to everyone who has participated in this work so far. The Chair 
commented that was lots of good discussion at the session earlier this week and was great to
share what work is already being carried out, what has worked and what hasn’t worked so well. 
The Chair asked for Child Poverty to be a standing item on the CPP Board agenda. 
The Chair thanked A Sutton for her input. 
Actions:
• J McGee to add Child Poverty as a standing item on the CPP Board agenda 
• A Sutton to bring report on collective work of UNCRC Board to future CPP Board
meeting 
6. LOIP Workshop Update   
Jacqueline Greenlees provided the Board with a presentation to provide an update following a
recent Local Outcomes Improvement (LOIP) workshop with the CPP Senior Officers Group. 
J Greenlees advised the Board that the 2022 -2030 LOIP focuses on three key priorities: -
Wellbeing, World and Work.   
The aim of the workshop was to: 
• Decide key LOIP Governance
• Look at the LOIP priorities with a particular focus Wellbeing and Poverty
• LOIP performance arrangements

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J Greenlees advised the Board that in terms of wellbeing, it is proposed that the North Ayrshire
Wellbeing Alliance will be the key group to focus on the governance of this priority. 
A Sutton highlighted that in terms of the Wellbeing Alliance, she would like to bring forward a
proposal which will give a reflection of the LOIP priority across all CPP partners with KA Leisure
at the heart of it.  A Sutton advised that she would arrange for a more detailed version of this
model to be shared with the Chair with view to this being brought to a future meeting of the CPP
Board. 
J Greenlees advised the Board that discussion around performance management for the LOIP
focused on reporting partnership work over individual achievements as well as the use of case
studies in addition to hard data. J Greenlees will also be liaising with the Improvement Service
to develop a LOIP impact tool. 
In terms of next steps, the team will:
• Continue to implement the LOIP 22-30
• Work to pull together data and develop the LOIP Impact Tool (previously the LOIP Action
Plan)
• Finesse the LOIP document to reflect workshop outcomes
• Continue to develop and implement CPP learning and promote new plan
• Work with partners to develop and implement proposed Wellbeing governance
arrangements- Community Wellbeing Alliance 
The Chair commented that wellbeing is very relevant to the Locality Partnerships and there is
further discussion needed around the role of Locality Partnerships. 
Cllr Davidson suggested having further Elected Member development session highlighting more
of the work of the CPP. R Arthur highlighted that a face-to-face workshop session would
probably be the best way. R Arthur undertook to give this idea more thought. 
L Bowie agreed that there would be value is sharing the awareness of the CPP further within
organisations.  J Greenlees advised that there is a standing offer from the Community Planning
Team to our partners to attend team meetings/workshops. 
Action: 
• A Sutton to bring report on Wellbeing Alliance to a future meeting of the CPP
Board
• R Arthur to give thought to a further Elected Member session. 
7. Partner Discussion and Sharing on Key Developments and Opportunities
SPT – Alan Comrie advised the Board that the Regional Transport Strategy Consultation is open
and will close at midnight Friday 8 October 2022. A Comrie encourage the Board to respond
where appropriate. 
NHS – Ruth Mellor advised the Board that Sally Amor (who was observing today’s meeting) is
a new Consultant within the Public Health, her remit is in vulnerable population and will be
working with the ADPs across Ayrshire. 
8. AOCB
No other business was discussed. The Chair conveyed her thanks to everyone in attendance.  
9. Date of next Meeting

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The next meeting of the North Ayrshire CPP Board will be held on Thursday 8 December 2022
at 11.00 am via Microsoft Teams.