Community Planning Partnership
Reports and Research

Every year the Community Planning Partnership in North Ayrshire produce a report that shows the overall performance of the partnership and progress towards our long term outcomes. The annual report also includes many great practical examples of what partners are doing to make a difference.

• Annual Report 2019/20
• Annual Report 2018/19
• Annual Report 2017/18
• Annual Report 2015/16
• Annual Report 2014/15

The Accounts Commission have published their Best Value Assurance Report on North Ayrshire Council. This is relevant to Community and Locality Planning as it covers how we work in partnership and the difference it is making. You can view the report here.

This is a survey of 2000 local residents who have agreed to answer questions and provide their views on the areas in which they live. We then hold focus groups for 8-12 people in each locality to find out a bit more about their views.

The People’s Panel Survey was originally carried out annually but is now every two years.  The Partnership uses this information to decide what action to take on the issues that local residents tell us need to be improved.

2020 Survey

• People’s Panel’s questionnaire 2020 
• People’s Panel report 2020
• People’s Panel Action Plan 2020

2018 Survey

• People’s Panel Questionnaire 2018
• People’s Panel Report 2018
• Focus Groups Report 2018
• Peoples Panel Action Plan 2018

2015 Survey

• What have we done with your feedback? January 2017
• People’s Panel questionnaire 2015
• People’s Panel Autumn 2015
• Focus Groups Report

Find out how we are performing against our Local Outcomes Improvement Plan indicators by visiting North Ayrshire Performs– our online performance area (which we share with North Ayrshire Council).

Carnegie UK Trust have published Pooling Together: How Community Hubs have responded to the COVID-19 Emergency. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trust has been undertaking a series of conversations with communities across the UK, exploring the changing relationship between local government, public services and communities. During these conversations, they’ve heard from several areas that community hubs were a critical part of the emergency response. In many cases, these demonstrated strong leadership, creative practice and partnership working. The report includes learning from North Ayrshire and offers examples of best practice, challenges, opportunities and learning for the future.

North Ayrshire – A Case Study on Kindness by Carnegie UK Trust tells the story of working in partnership with North Ayrshire Council and Community Planning partners to explore what it would mean to embed kindness across a local authority area, and what that might achieve.

This ‘case study on kindness’ begins by revisiting our starting ambition to reframe the relationship between the public sector and communities, and rehearses the activities and achievements along the way. However, it also recognises that the journey is not yet complete: and so, the report finishes by reflecting on challenges and learning, particularly over the last 6 months. It finishes with five priorities for sustaining and developing kindness.

We held our annual Locality Partnership Conference on 25 January 2020 at Saltcoats Town Hall.

Conference materials are available below:

Conference Slides

Conference Programme Save

 2020 Conference Report

The SIMD is the official tool for identifying deprivation across Scotland. It is carried out every three or four years. This index consists of a table of overall scores for multiple deprivation, based on seven domains, across small areas known as datazones. The index ranks each data zone from the most to the least multiply deprived. There are 6976 datazones across Scotland.

Our CPP analysts use this index to help them identify areas of concern. Along with other local data and community views, this can be used by locality partnerships to identify the priorities for action.

This Briefing and  presentation  explains the SIMD further and summarises the most recent information published.

Community Justice Ayrshire is a partnership which is focused on preventing and reducing re-offending. They have published a Plan called ‘Beginnings, Belonging, Belief’ to help do this. The Plan is for all of those affected by crime. That includes people involved in offending, their families, victims, communities and those working in the justice system.

This plan is known as a Community Justice Outcomes Improvement Plan (CJOIP) and is a statutory requirement of the Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016:

• ‘Beginnings, Belonging, Belief’ – Community Justice Outcomes Improvement Plan
• ‘Starting from Strengths, not Needs’ –  Strategic Assessment for Community Justice Ayrshire
• Our Commitments Plan – Community Justice Commitments Plan
• Our Participation Statement – Community Justice Participation Statement
• Our Equality Impact Assessment – Community Justice Equalities Impact Assessment

A new ‘Beginnings, Belonging, Belief’ Plan will be produced by April each year. Community Justice Ayrshire brings together a wide range of partners working to prevent and reduce re-offending. It reports to the three Ayrshire Community Planning Partnerships.

For further information and to contact the team, please visit www.communityjusticeayrshire.org.uk.

Our Local Development Plan is based on Spatial Planning. It sets out how we aim to guide development and investment in the area over the next 20 years.

Local Development Plan