Community Planning Partnership
Tackling Disadvantage
The Community Planning Partnership plays a major role in tackling some of the most
significant inequalities in our society for example - long term health conditions,
unemployment, low pay and homelessness and the subsequent poverty that can result.
Often these circumstances lead to drug and alcohol addiction which can have further
detrimental effects on people and families.
Community Planning Programme
Community Planning Partnerships were previously allocated special funds from the
Scottish Government to improve opportunities for local people. These funds were
known as the Community Regeneration Fund and latterly the Fairer Scotland Fund and
were used to develop specialist and targeted services to help people in difficult
circumstances to improve their quality of life.
The ring fencing has been lifted from these funds and the allocation to South Ayrshire
now comes as part of the local government settlement to South Ayrshire Council.
The Community Planning Board makes recommendations in relation to a programme of
services, referred to as ‘The Community Planning Programme’ which is in place to
address the 3 main objectives of Employability, Early Interventions, especially
for children and families, and Community Engagement.
The Council approved the proposed Programme for 2011 - 2012 at its budget setting
meeting on 10th February 2011. Please click on the link below to see the services
which are funded as part of this Programme.