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Argyll and Bute Council · 16 September 2024
Back to Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership - Full Partnership — 16 September 2024 and its agenda
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Welcome Pippa Milne Chief Executive, Argyll and Bute Council Chair, Argyll and Bute CPP Management Committee
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Update from the June CPP and outline for the day John McLuckie Partnerships Lead, Argyll and Bute Council
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Update from the June CPP (1) • Community Planning Self-Assessment • National Self-Assessment Programme for all 32 CPPs • Development session with Improvement Service post-October 2024 • Promotion of the 3 priority outcomes • Video and trifold leaflet • Engagement exercise participants • Area Community Planning Groups and onward distribution • CPP partners and onward distribution
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Update from the June CPP (2) • Approaches to developing actions • How to approach creating actions needed to deliver the new ABOIP outcomes • Recognition of cross-cutting themes when developing actions for ABOIP outcomes • Working with ACPG partners • Points to take forward to CPP Full Partnership • Provision of printed ABOIP resources • Mapping of groups to be targeted for ABOIP promotion • Refresh key strategies used in ABOIP preparation • Housing Summit actions for CPP shared • Community Wealth Building direction and clarity • What is already happening and what are the gaps for each ABOIP outcome?
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Outline of the day (1) • Icebreaker • CPP core business • Argyll and Bute Employability Partnership • Area Community Planning Groups • Cross-cutting themes • Climate Change • Community Wealth Building • Digital
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Outline of the day (2) • ABOIP priorities • Transport Infrastructure • Housing • Community Wellbeing • Delegate pack • CPP Bulletin • Funding Alert • CPP Comms • CPP Podcast • Welcome Pack
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Getting to know each other Community Development Team, Argyll and Bute Council
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Argyll and Bute Employability Partnership Delivery Plan Ishabel Bremner Economic Growth Manager, Argyll and Bute Council
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Classification: OFFICIAL ARGYLL AND BUTE EMPLOYABILITY PARTNERSHIP DELIVERY PLAN ANNUAL UPDATE ARGYLL AND BUTE COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP FULL PARTNERSHIP MEETING 16 SEPTEMBER 2024 ISHABEL BREMNER, ECONOMIC GROWTH MANAGER
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Classification: OFFICIAL Argyll and Bute Employability Partnership (ABEP) delivers: Stronger and more collaborative partnership working. Place-based person-centred approach. Opportunities for individuals of all ages and capabilities through tackling socio-economic disadvantage and inequalities. Support to remove multiple barriers to securing sustainable employment.
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Classification: OFFICIAL ABEP Delivery Plan: provides a platform for partners and stakeholders delivering employability services across Argyll and Bute to work together to identify: • Opportunities • Align priorities • Learn from each other • Develop valued services • Add value to every engagement with supported individuals.
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Classification: OFFICIAL ABEP Delivery PlanAnnual Update: • Revised supply and demand mapping of the Argyll and Bute Employability Pipeline – delivering the right provision at the right time to the right individual by the right provider to enable them to progress on their employment journey (section 4.1). • Delivery priorities – All-Age (15-67 yrs) Employability Support and Tackling Child Poverty. • Progress on improvements to the ABEP itself (Table 4a). • Annual Investment Plan broken down into specific All-Age Employability Support and Tackling Child Poverty (Tables 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e & 4f).
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Classification: OFFICIAL The CPP Full Partnership is being asked to: • Note the content of this paper. • Endorse the ABEP Delivery Plan annual update for 2024-25.
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Climate Change Andy Macpherson Climate Change Project Manager, Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust
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Argyll and Bute Climate Action: Engaging Community Planning Partners to shape the Climate Change Strategy for Argyll & Bute Andy Macpherson Climate Change Project Manager Argyll Countryside Trust andy@act-now.org.uk
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Outline • Remit and Request • Key Principles • Process and Progress • Climate Trends • Climate Risks • Findings, Current Action and Opportunities • Priority Areas for Action • Next Steps 16
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Remit A CPP initiative to develop a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for the region addressing • Mitigationto reduce our greenhouse gas emissions: climate friendly • Adaptation to unavoidable impacts of climate change: climate ready • Engagementto ensure inclusion: climate just “The CPP is the group of organisations and community representatives working together to achieve improvements across Argyll and Bute in ways which promote prevention, reduce inequalities and build community capacity.” 17
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Request to the CPP • Feedback on the overall approach and proposed main areas of opportunity • Thoughts on participation to inform developing the Action Plan around those areas, aligned to the CPP Outcomes – Transport Infrastructure – Housing – Community Wellbeing 19
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Let’s talk about the weather Using Slido, indicate severe weather events in your own experience that have affected you or your organisation or area of work Climate records and projections indicate that we can expect these events to continue to increase in frequency and severity 20
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Which have affected you? • Flooding 66% • Heavy rainfall, storms, landslides 84% • Temperature change, heatwave, drought 25% • Sea level rise and coastal impacts 47% • Wildfires 19% • Multi-hazards 25% • Don’t know 3% • Please scan the QR code or go via slido.com #290 306 21
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Key Principles o Embed just transition throughout o Align with CPP outcomes and within CPP agency o Make links, address gaps o Methodology from existing climate strategies o Complement not replace partners’ existing action o Compatible with existing reporting requirements o Make it Simple and Short We make Argyll and Bute climate ready by acting together to understand and adapt to our changing climate 23
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Process and Progress 24
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Climate Trends • Hotter, drier summers • Warmer, wetter winters • More variable weather • More intense and frequent severe weather events • Sea level rise and storm surge 25
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Climate Risks • Flooding (water courses and surface water) • Heavy rainfall, storms and landslides • Temperature change, heatwaves and drought • Sea level rise & coastal impacts • Wildfires • Multi-hazards affecting people, species, habitats • Anything else? Possible other unknowns Derived from stakeholder meetings, literature review and peer group screening of UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 26
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Findings: Current Action, Opportunities There is already a huge amount of activity at all levels and potential for major co benefits Climate Change impacts upon and is impacted by every facet of the CPP agenda • Extended and vulnerable communications links and infrastructure • Green/blue infrastructure: land use, incl forest and peatland restoration • Grid capacity and community involvement in renewables • Applicability of national programmes to A&B geography and economy • Circular economy and community wealth building - procurement • Some partners at similar stages of developing climate risk assessments • Community (including business) resilience and skills development Derived from meetings with CPP and wider stakeholders, literature review, with community engagement principally via Climate Action Hubs 27
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Main Areas of Opportunity • Infrastructure • Policy Influence • Procurement and Supply Chain Collaboration • Risk/Economic Assessment • Resilience/Carbon Literacy Training • Skills Development Anything else within the CPP’s scope of influence? 28
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Main Areas of Opportunity What are most achievable to tackle in the CPP space? Please scan the QR code or go via slido.com #290 306 • Infrastructure 23% • Policy Influence 65% • Procurement and Supply Chain Collaboration 48% • Risk/Economic Assessment 39% • Resilience/Carbon Literacy Training 61% • Skills Development 61% Anything else within the CPP’s scope of influence? 3% 29
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Next Steps 2024 Sep-Nov Dec-Feb Mar-May Jun-Aug Sep-Nov 2025 Update to CPP, Draft Strategy to Climate Change Working Group Final draft Strategy to Dec CPP Ongoing mapping, local impact projections and risk assessment informed by engagement Final Strategy and Action Plan to CPP Action Plan and project development, ongoing risk assessment informed by engagement Review, refresh and finalise New BAU Action Plan and project development, ongoing risk assessment informed by engagement Draft Action Plan to CCWG, Update to Area CPGs and CPP Update to CCWG, Area CPGs, CPP 31
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Request to the CPP • Feedback on the overall approach and area of opportunity • Thoughts on participation to inform developing the Action Plan around those themes, aligned to – Transport – Housing – Community Wellbeing Andy Macpherson andy@act-now.org.uk 32
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Break Tea and coffee available in café
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Community Wealth Building John McLuckie Partnerships Lead, Argyll and Bute Council
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Community Wealth Building “Community wealth building is a new people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people” - CLES (The Centre for Local Economic Strategies) 5 pillars • Progressive procurement of goods and services • Fair employment and just labour markets • Plural ownership of the economy • Making financial power work for local places • Socially productive use of land and property
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Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership and Community Wealth Building (1) September 2020 – CWB approved as a cross-cutting theme December 2020 – North Ayrshire Council CWB Strategy presentation March 2021 – CPP Management Committee proposal to arrange 5 CWB workshops – 1 for each pillar October 2022 – TSI to coordinate the commissioning of a baseline report December 2022 – Expert Advisory Panel/Steering Group agreed March 2023 – Tendering for CWB research project June 2023 – CLES appointed – steering group formed =============================================================== April 2024 – Final CWB report
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Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership and Community Wealth Building (2) • July/August 2023 - Interviews with CPP members • July/August 2023 - Document search and review • August/September 2023 - CPP dedicated workshop • August/October 2023 - Area Community Planning Groups • August/October 2023 - Citizen-led workshops • October 2023 - Business case selection • October/November 2023 - Draft report • December 2023 - Presentation and approval of report at CPP MC • January 2024 - Recommendations accepted in principle • April 2024 – Final report approved
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Argyll and Bute Community Planning Partnership and Community Wealth Building (3) • April/May 2024 - Presentations to Area Community Planning Groups • August 2024 - Latest CWB Steering Group meeting • August 2024 - Updates to Area Community Planning Groups
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National, regional and local CWB considerations • Scottish Government CWB Bill • HIE ‘our place our prosperity’ research • Argyll and ButeEconomic Strategy and Action Plan • Anchor Institutions • Local examples which may have elements of CWB
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Report – “A framework for action” • 3 CPP recommendations • 2 Models of Opportunity • 20 CPP member recommendations
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CPP Recommendations and Models of Opportunity CPP recommendations • CWB intrinsic to economic strategy • Decide on correct avenues to deliver CWB across Argyll and Bute • Development of CWB time limited group(s) • Models of Opportunity • Building greater employee ownership in Argyll and Bute • Building community and shared ownership of the energy transition
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CPP Member Recommendations (1) Pillar 1 - Spending • Establish a CPP procurement working group • Build collective market intelligence • Publish a collective procurement pipeline • CPP meet the buyer events • Develop procurement training for suppliers • Pillar 2 - Workforce • Real Living Wage Place • Pathways into work • Argyll and Bute Employment Charter • Employment Charter support
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CPP Member Recommendations (2) Pillar 3 – Inclusive ownership • Identify ownership opportunities in growth sectors • Review of cooperative business support • Peer support networks • Brokering supply chain opportunities • Pillar 4 - Finance • Mapping the alternative financial infrastructure • Mapping, pooling and strategic planning of community benefits • Develop a local finance initiative proposal
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CPP Member Recommendations (3) Pillar 5 – Land and property • Affordable Workspace Strategy • Vacant and derelict land • Rationalisation of the public estate • Convene a Local Landowners’ Forum
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Community Wealth Building Steering Group Recommendation Detail including critical success factors Priority Ease of implementation Model of implementation and current status • Strategy • Recommendations with local context and rationale • Prioritisation
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Question for the CPP Full Partnership •Does your organisation support the CPP’s approach to Community Wealth Building in Argyll and Bute and agree to be involved?
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Transport Infrastructure Ranald Robertson Director, HITRANS
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Regional Transport Strategy and Perspective Ranald Robertson Partnership Director, HITRANS 16th September 2024
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RTS Development RTS sets the strategic framework for the development of transport in our region over the next 20 years • Stage 1: The Case for Change - Set out the transport problems in the HITRANS region and established a set of Strategy Objectives focused on addressing these problems • Stage 2: Option Generation and Preliminary Options Appraisal - Involved generating, developing and appraising a set of options which help to resolve the problems identified and deliver the Strategy Objectives • Stage 3: RTS Document - Collation of the outputs from the above activities into a final draft RTS document ahead of statutory consultation. • Impact Assessments – Preparation also informed by Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Equalities (EqIA), Island (ICIA) and Health (HIA) Impact Assessments
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RTS Strategy Themes
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Delivery of Committed Projects would be a Good Start for Outcome 1
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Moran Taing