Local authorities have a statutory duty of community planning
under the
Local Government in Scotland Act 2003.
Community Planning is about a range of local organisations
working together to plan and provide for the wellbeing of their
communities.
The main aims of Community Planning are:
- to ensure that people and communities are genuinely engaged in
the decisions made on public services which affect them
- to improve the services provided by local service providers
through closer more co-ordinated working
- to help councils and their public sector partners collectively
to identify the needs and views of individuals and communities and
to assess how they can best be delivered
As a result of recent changes to Community Planning, our
primary focus is aimed at delivering our local outcomes set
out in our Single Outcome Agreement.
For more background information on the implementation of
Community Planning in Scotland, please visit the
Scottish Government website and the Improvement
Service website.