Scottish Borders Council

Agenda item

Community Plan - Performance Update

(a)     Performance Update.  (Report attached)

 

(b)     Presentation by each Theme Lead.

Minutes:

4.1       Copies of a report by SBC Service Director, Customer & Communities, on the Scottish Borders Community Plan Performance Report 2018/19 had been circulated.  Alasdair Collison, SBC Senior Business Services Officer, joined the meeting and presented highlights from the report.  It was explained that the Scottish Borders Community Plan had been created in November 2017 and refreshed in May 2018.  The Community Planning Partnership was required to produce an annual report detailing the performance against the Plan and that Annual Report was attached as Appendix 1 to the report.  The Annual Report included data where provided for the remainder of 2017/28 and 2018/19.  Performance was set against a suite of indicators intended to evidence achievement against an extensive range of ambitious outcomes, across 4 Community Planning themes:  Our Economy, Skills & Learning; Our Health, Care & Wellbeing; Our Quality of Life; and Our Place.  Due to the timespan over which the Report had been prepared, some of the actions described and summary content may be more recent.  In addition, the range of topics and diverse sources of information had led to time frequencies and periods varying from measure to measure.  A further report for 2019/20 would be brought to a future Strategic Board meeting at the earliest opportunity.

 

4.2       Rob Dickson, SBC Executive Director (Corporate Improvement & Economy), presented updates on the planned outcomes for the theme of Our Economy, Skills and Learning, covering:

·         More people working more productively for higher wages

·         More highly skilled workers

·         More people benefitting from better connectivity

·         More business people benefitting from greater investment and better support for their new and existing businesses, particularly in key growth sectors

·         More people shopping, visiting and spending in local town centres

·         More children, particularly those living in poverty, achieving higher levels of attainment

·         More Looked After and Accommodated children and young people (LAC) in positive and sustained destinations

 

4.3       Rob McCulloch-Graham, IJB Chief Officer, presented updates for the planned outcomes for the theme of Our Health, Care and Wellbeing, covering:

·         More people in good health and leading an active lifestyle at every age and stage of life

·         More people in good mental health at very age and stage of life; and

·         Improved support and care for older people.

 

4.4       Inspector Jacqui McGuigan, Police Scotland, gave an update on the current situation regarding the outcomes for the theme of Our Quality of Life, which covered:

·         Fewer people experiencing violence (including domestic abuse);

·         Fewer people experiencing anti-social behaviour; nad

·         Fewer people killed or seriously injured on our roads.

In response to a question around police attendance/information at Community Council meetings, Inspector McGuigan advised that the reports provided by the local area commander to SBC Elected Members could be shared with Community Councils.  Police could not use Zoom as a platform for remote meetings due to security issues, but could use MS Teams.  The main links for Community Councils were the community police officers and also the 2 Sergeants in the Community Police Action teams, the latter funded by SBC.

 

4.5       Nile Istephan, Chief Executive of Eildon Housing, and Julia Mulloy, Chief Executive of SBHA, gave an update on the planned outcomes on the theme, Our Place, covering:

·         More people able to afford to heat their homes; and

·         More people living independently in affordable and sustainable homes.

Reference was also made to work with the South of Scotland Enterprise Agency and working in collaboration, such as for the proposed Aberlour project at Tweedbank. 

Noted.

 

 

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