Shaping Places for Wellbeing
Argyll and Bute Council · 15 August 2023
Back to Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group — 15 August 2023 and its agenda
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Shaping Place for Wellbeing Programme: Dunoon update The update below summarises some of the recent work of the Shaping Places for Wellbeing programme in Dunoon and some guides we have published to our work. We would like to highlight a couple of areas where we are keen to seek input from people and organisations based in and around Dunoon. How can Shaping Places for Wellbeing support your work? Trying out your own Place and Wellbeing Assessment: Are you creating or updating a plan, policy or strategy for your organisation? Are you interested in exploring how it will affect a place and its impact on the wellbeing of people and planet? If so, the Dunoon team can support organisations to try out this process. Active travel: Over the coming months, the Shaping Places for Wellbeing team will be working with local partners to explore how active travel plans for Dunoon can work together. If your organisation has an interest in this topic and would like to discuss how to get involved, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact Becky.Hothersall@improvementservice.org.uk if you are interested in finding out more about either of these opportunities. Place and Wellbeing Assessments Complete Potential future assessments Waterfront regeneration proposal (Levelling Up Bid) Argyll and Bute Council Economic strategy Dunoon Active Travel Hub Local Place Plan for Dunoon HSCP Joint strategic plan and joint commissioning strategy Dunoon Community STEM Hub Argyll and Bute Local Policing Plan 2023-26 Argyll and Bute Local Outcomes Improvement Plan Since the last Area Community Planning Group the Shaping Places for Wellbeing team has co-ordinated Place and Wellbeing assessments of the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP)’s Joint strategic plan and joint commissioning strategy, and the Argyll and Bute Local Policing Plan 2023-26. Two broad emerging themes from the HSCP assessment were:
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The role of the HSCP (its core functions, how it works in partnership and in where its role is to influence and share knowledge). Discussions focussed on Public Transport, Housing & Community and Natural Space Outcomes as three key areas which present significant opportunities for improving health by reducing the need for healthcare services. Collaboration with the third sector and how ambitions for co-production of services can be achieved. The Local Policing Plan assessment report is currently being written but broad themes include: partnership working; supporting mental health; young people; building on successes around dementia awareness and support; and specific considerations relating to remote, rural and island policing. Links to the reports will be available in due course but if you’d like to know more please get in touch. The team continues to support the implementation of recommendations from earlier Place and Wellbeing Assessments, with Dunoon Development Community Development Trust and the Council including teams in Economic Growth, Active Travel, Rural Growth Deal. This includes: Alignment of active travel initiatives Targeted engagement on infrastructure projects A guide to Place and Wellbeing Assessments has been produced that anyone can use to do their own assessments on plans, strategies, proposals and other decision-making processes. Our new guide, A Data-Informed Approach: A How-To Guide to Capturing Local Quantitative Data, shares our experience on capturing local quantitative data. We also share our learning through our blogs series and keeping you up to date on programme progress through our regularly updated Programme Summary document. Coming soon – visual summary of local insight into inequalities in Dunoon The team continues to explore data and insights from local stakeholders to better understand the key inequalities and people most impacted by them within Dunoon, as well as the changes people need from their place in order to thrive. We will shortly be publishing a visual summary of the key issues identified by our engagement process. We are also working on a longer report summarising the sources we have consulted, recurring themes and next steps. These findings are already being fed into Place and Wellbeing Assessments and our programme’s support for assessment recommendations. This includes, for example, facilitating discussions around targeted engagement of inequality groups and potential for multiple teams to co-ordinate engagement processes.
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This implementation diagram has been produced to show the intended short and long term outcomes of the programme. Further contact and information Programme website https://www.improvementservice.org.uk/products-and-services/consultancy-and- support/shaping-places-for-wellbeing-programme Keep in touch via our twitter account https://twitter.com/place4wellbeing/status/1478748497566445570 If you want to share your own projects, approaches and learning relevant to Shaping Places for Wellbeing join our Knowledge Hub https://khub.net/web/shaping-places-for-wellbeing- programme