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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015)
Meeting date: 7 March 2023
Marie McNair
Yes. Hopefully it will stay away.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015)
Meeting date: 7 March 2023
Marie McNair
The committee heard last week about weaknesses in the data that is available on rural settings, and about a lack of robust data on ethnicity and other equalities characteristics. What needs to be done to improve that?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015)
Meeting date: 7 March 2023
Marie McNair
I have a second question. Some submissions to the inquiry spoke about equalities in terms of equal access to high-quality public services. What impact has the 2015 act had on the quality of public services? Are you confident that people in your area have equal access to public services, regardless of where they live or their community of interest?
I know that that has already been touched on in some of the responses, but would anyone like to add anything further? While I have got you, Anna, would you like to come in?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015)
Meeting date: 7 March 2023
Marie McNair
Thank you; it does.
In the interests of time, I will move on to my next question—
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
No, you are absolutely fine. Does anybody else want to come in on that?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
I was really impressed by the level of detail that the Improvement Service held on the interface.
What are the biggest challenges and barriers to CPPs making the impacts that the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 and the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 anticipated? I will go back to Stuart Graham with that question.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
Good morning, panel. The issue of data has been touched on already. Back in 2013, Audit Scotland concluded that community planning partnerships
“are not able to show that they have had a significant impact in delivering improved outcomes across Scotland”.
Carol Calder, would you make the same assessment now?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
Tim McKay, do you want to have the last word on that?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
I have a final question, but I think that it has been covered. What are the biggest challenges and barriers to CPPs making the impacts that the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 anticipated?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Community Planning Inquiry (Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Community Empowerment Act 2015)
Meeting date: 28 February 2023
Marie McNair
What evidence is there that community planning efforts are being focused on the most disadvantaged communities? Is there evidence of CPPs and individual partners using the data collected by the Improvement Service to target interventions and policies? I will pop that to Stuart Graham.
