Tackling Poverty Pilot Projects - 25/02/2010
Five local partnerships have recently been selected to participate in a project aimed at embedding an 'outcomes approach' in tackling poverty and community regeneration.
The local partnerships that will participate in the project are:
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Dumfries & Galloway Poverty, Inequality and Deprivation Working Group
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Midlothian Improving Opportunities Group
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Falkirk CPP Community Regeneration Theme Group
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Fife Sustainable Communities Group
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West Lothian Life Stages Strategic Board
The pilot project is a collaborative initiative between the Improvement Service (IS) and the Scottish Government’s Scottish Centre for Regeneration (SCR). The project will provide practical, hands-on support to the local partnerships in order to help them fulfil the potential of the outcomes approach in their work on tackling poverty and community regeneration.
The projects will commence on a staggered basis from February 2010, with each one running for approximately 15 months.
The five partnerships that will participate in the project were drawn from a total of 14 applications. Commenting on the selection process, Jim Carruth of SCR said: "We were encouraged both by the overall number of applications and by the fact that the standard of submission was generally high. The IS/SCR panel charged with assessing the applications had some difficult choices to make but we ultimately came to a unanimous decision on the five partnerships to be included in the pilot. We think those selected will provide a good mix for the pilot, reflecting differences in scale of partnership as well as a balance between urban, rural and mixed geographic areas. We also sought to achieve a mix between relatively mature partnership groups and those that have been established fairly recently.
"We will capture and disseminate the key learning that emerges from the project, particularly given that it is likely to be of wider interest across the country. This will include producing a series of Issues Papers, Learning Points and Case studies. We will communicate progress and key messages from the work via online dissemination and by inputting to relevant seminars."
Regular updates on the progress of the pilots will be posted on the SCR Community Regeneration and Tackling Poverty Learning Network forum at the following link.Website: www.communities.idea.gov.uk/comm/landing-home.do?id=1119954
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