Item 13 - Empowered DIG Report
West Dunbartonshire Council · 21 November 2024
Back to Community Planning West Dunbartonshire Management Board — 21 November 2024 and its agenda
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Management Board Meeting Development and Improvement Groups (DIGs): Highlights and Issues Report FOR INFORMATION ONLY X FOR DECISION Name of DIG Empowered Date of report 28 October 2024 Name and email of lead contact Selina Ross selina@wdcvs.com 1 Highlights of activity and progress since last meeting Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund Applications for Year 4 funding opened in September and will close on 22nd November. A series of information workshops have been hosted and well attended, giving confidence that a strong range of applications will be received. The judging panel will meet in mid December to ensure that grant notifications can be given pre- festive break and payments made in early January 2025. Locality Planning The Communities Team has been working alongside communities to support the development of three Locality Plans in the Leven, Dumbarton and Waterfront areas. Each Locality Plan sets out some data on the local area to give a picture of some of the local challenges. The plan then goes on to summarise feedback from the communities that has been drawn from various consultation events over recent years. This was then reviewed by a light touch consultation to ensure the information gathered remained accurate. The outcome is a list of local priorities for each Locality. Community Planning partners are asked to review these priorities and commit to working to address these priorities as part of the wider goal of addressing inequalities across West Dunbartonshire. The next step is for each local community to develop their own Action Plan to help identify what can be done to address each of the priorities and who can support the work. This is an opportunity to increase community participation and influence from local people. The Communities Team will support this work and provide up-dates to CPWD on progress. Copies are attached at Appendix One. ITEM 13
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Shameless Youth – a partnership project with NSPCC, Youth Council and Education Services. Shameless Youths is a campaign designed by local young people through the West Dunbartonshire Youth Council (Communities Team) and in partnership with NSPCC and Education Services to promote healthy relationships online. The launch event took place in Clydebank Town Hall with contributions from the young people, Ailsa Dinwoodie, Promise Keeper, WDC and Euan Graham from NSCPP. ‘Shameless Youth’ believes that when it comes to supporting young people to learn about consent and health relationships online, realistic, judgement free and informed conversations are the way forward. The event offered real life experiences from young people and the chance for organisations to learn how to support the campaign. A report on the campaign will be brought to a future meeting. Community Development Alliance Following the recent CLD Planning Progress Visit, it has been agreed that the Empowered DIG will assume oversight of the Community Development Alliance action plan, reducing the need for the creation of a duplicating structure to be put in place. A copy of the Action Plan is included at Appendix Two. DIG Review Since the last meeting and in light of the inclusion of the Community Development Alliance oversight, the DIG has been actively reviewing its priorities and membership. This review will be concluded before the festive break and will feed back to the February meeting. 2 Outline of any issues/risks and how these are being managed No current issues or risks to report. 3 Outline of the main outputs expected before next meeting The revised action plan and membership will have been completed and presented to the Management Board for approval. 4 What are your requirements of partners in the Community Planning Management Board to achieve the outcomes of the DIG? No current requests 5 Please outline any good news story you wish to share
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