Public Performance Reporting

Regeneration

• Regeneration is concerned with tackling disadvantage and creating the opportunity for all people to make the most of their lives.
• Working with our Community Planning Partners, we have agreed a series of actions in our ‘Regeneration Outcome Agreement’ that will help in:
  • Building Strong, Safe and Attractive Communities
  • Getting People into Work
  • Improving Health
  • Raising Educational Attainment
  • Engaging Young People.
• Some early progress that we can report is:

Two new public health nurses will deliver preventative programmes of physical activities and information in disadvantaged communities.

Over 12 months, local employment and training services, combined with childcare, have helped 150 people in Ayr North, Wallacetown and Newton to get jobs.

Almost 1000 parents in Ayr North have been assisted to develop more supportive links between themselves, their children and the schools and teachers in Ayr North. These have helped to improve pupil performance in class.

An ambitious programme has been prepared to redevelop the Girvan Beach Pavilion into the ‘Ailsa Craig Centre’. Funding is currently being sought by Girvan Community Developments Ltd, a social enterprise linked to the RSPB, who look after the bird sanctuary on Ailsa Craig.

Stepping Stones For Families provides childcare, rural transport, and family support aimed at the disadvantaged. Part of its work has been income maximisation, which has helped local people to secure over £1.6 million in tax and pension credit entitlements since 2000.