A planned mid-term review of our LOIP and Locality Plan arrangements also incorporated a refresh of our existing Community Planning Operating Model.
This has led to the membership of our Community Planning Board being revised along with a new Community Planning Senior Leadership Team being established to help drive forward our new LOIP priorities and embed our Locality Planning approach. An area-based Locality Hub model will also help support a bottom up, evidenced-based approach to Community Planning led by Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway in partnership with a range of key Community Planning Partners.
Over the last few years our communities have been engaged in a wide range of community consultation exercises in relation to the development of new plans nd strategies which contribute to our LOIP along with refreshed Strategic Needs Assessments being undertaken in relation to health and social care and children and young people.
The second edition of the “10,000 voices” consultation with young people was completed in the first part of 2023 using the Place Standard Tool and has provided a rich source of intelligence to help identify key trends and issues. The exercise itself captured the voices of 10,828 (51.7%) all young people across the region (ages 10 to 25) and therefore is of significant importance in helping to inform our priority actions for the future.
A main consideration in developing our new LOIP has therefore been to ensure that the key messages from recent consultations, evaluative reports and engagement exercises have informed our new themes, outcomes and key actions and this has included consideration of the following:
Impact of covid-19 on young people
South of Scotland Third Sector: A Partnership approach to covid-19 response and recovery planning.
Health and Social Care strategic needs assessment 2018
Development of the South of Scotland Economic Strategy 2021 to 2031.
Development of the Health and Social Care Strategic Commissioning Plan 2022 to 2025
Children and Young People’s Strategic Needs Assessment 2022 to 2023.
Development of CLD Partners’ Plan 2021 to 2024
Development of a new Local Employability Partnership Delivery Plan 2022 to 2027.
Evaluation of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Anti-Poverty Strategy 2015-2020 and development of future arrangements for tackling Poverty and Inequalities: Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway Digital Exclusion Research 2022