About Locality Hubs
Locality Hubs offer a multiagency platform to enable coordinated delivery of services to address communities’ needs in each area.
The Locality Hubs exist to ensure communities are at the heart of place and locality planning. They are the ‘keepers’ of the place planning principle and process in localities.
Objectives of the hubs
The objectives of the hubs are to:
- adopt the place planning principles and process in localities
- be a co-ordination point for partners around place and locality planning and the involvement of communities
- report to the Board on progress and key issues affecting our communities
- agree partner resources to help tackle issues affecting our communities and supporting identified key local projects
- support the Place Planning Partnership to develop an operational approach to place and locality planning based on the hubs’ collective understanding of the needs of communities
- implement guidance and assurance to communities and partners in the planning and delivery of place/locality plans
- contribute to the development of locality hub action plans.
- maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the funding and resources available for communities in each area, influencing decision making wherever appropriate
- maintain an up-to-date overview of the number and nature of partnerships and community organisations in localities.
- proactively ensure that the joint working within each area is maximised for added value.
- identify collaborative opportunities for communities in their covid recovery and renewal.
- identify training and development needs
- commit to a journey of self-improvement and reflective practice
Organisations and representatives
Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway
Representative: Community Engagement Managers
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Representative: Ward Officers and Managers
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Representative: Economic Development Team
NHS Health and Social Care
Representative: Health and Social Care Partnership Health and Wellbeing team
South of Scotland Enterprise
Representative: Community Development Advisers
Other representatives, including community representatives and young people, will be invited to participate in meetings, as required, in relation to specific pieces of work and key projects.
Support arrangements
Minute taking duties will be undertaken on a rotational basis.
In the absence of a Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway (TSDG) representative, a Chair shall be appointed from other Community Planning partners along with a minute taker.
Annandale and Eskdale
Secretariat Support (excluding minute taking)
Chair: Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway (TSDG) Engagement Manager (East)
Nithsdale
Secretariat Support (excluding minute taking)
Chair: TSDG Engagement Manager (East)
Stewartry
Secretariat Support (excluding minute taking)
Chair: TSDG Engagement Manager (West)
Wigtown
Secretariat Support (excluding minute taking)
Chair: TSDG Engagement Manager (West)
Criteria for membership
Locality based officers representing Community Planning partners.
Other representatives, including community representatives and young people, will be invited to participate in meetings, as required, in relation to specific pieces of work and key projects.
Meetings
The Locality Hubs will have a Chair, who will facilitate the locality hub meetings. The Chair will reside from TSDG and be the Community Engagement Manager West/East dependent upon the geographical location of the Locality Hub.
Each Locality Hub will have a representative from the group that will take a record of the meeting so that key decisions and actions can be recorded and circulated. This will be separate from the Chair and can be on a rotational basis.
The Locality Hubs will be a safe space for partners to meet and discuss collaborative working practice, projects and issues and share intelligence regarding the aims and purposes of the locality hubs knowing that locality hub views are shared only if agreed.
The Locality Hub meetings will have an agenda and agenda items will be agreed between its members. At the meetings a written record will be taken and actions from the meeting will be recorded and circulated.
Frequency of meetings
The Locality Hubs will meet either online, in person, or both. There will be at least 12 meetings per year.
Subgroup meetings may be convened to meet a particular need and will meet at a frequency agreed by the members.
Communications
Outwith the Locality Hub meetings, information will be sent from members as per the terms of reference.
The locality hub will be responsible for contributing to an annual performance report to the Community Planning Partnership Board (CPPB) with more regular updates to the Community Planning Senior Leadership Team (CPSLT) and the Board as required or requested.