Updates

 Annual Engagement Event

 Members of the Community Planning and Partnership Board joined Elected Members in Council Chambers on 12 September for the annual joint performance engagement event. This session is an opportunity for partners to get together to share updates on their performance over the last year.The session was chaired by Provost Jim Todd and involved interactive presentations and discussion with the strategic leads for our three community planning themes:

• Chief Inspector Alison Wilson, Police Scotland - Safer Communities
• Craig McArthur, Director of Health and Social Care - Wellbeing
• Linda McAulay Griffiths, Chief Education Officer and Head of Education - Economy and Skills.

Our Performance

Our performance is reported in the Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP)  Annual Report 2023/24.

Performance highlights include:

• More school leavers sustaining positive destinations:
  • 93.5% in 2022/23 compared to 92.8% nationally
• Year on year improvement in relation to readmissions to hospital within 28 days
  • reduced by 13% since 2021
• The unemployment rate reduced:
  • from 5.2% in 2021 to 3.7% in 2023
• Tenancy sustainment:
  • 90% in East Ayrshire in 2023/24, compared with 85% nationally
• Carers feeling supported in their role
  • increased from 28% to 36% and is now higher than the Scottish average

The LOIP Annual report was formally approved by Community Planning Partners at the CPP Board meeting on Thursday 19 September 2024.'

Challenges

Ongoing challenges include:

• Child Poverty:
  • a year on year increase and higher than the national average
• Premature Mortality:
  • consistently higher than the national average although it has decreased from 555.6 to 514.8 (deaths per 10,000)
• Adults at home who agree that they are supported to live independently:
  • a year on year decrease, but is still higher than the national average.

"It was great to have all the partners in the room with Elected Members and for some really constructive discussion around partnership solutions to our shared challenges. The LOIP annual report highlights some great examples of partnership work in action, and I look forward to continued engagement with partners in future."

Provost Jim Todd

"Given the significant financial pressures that we face, it’s more important than ever that we work in partnership to come up with innovative solutions and make the best use of the limited available resources. Our communities expect us to work effectively together to deliver the best services for them, and community planning is the framework that we use to do this."

Councillor Douglas Reid, Chair of the CPP Board

"We know that so many different factors impact on people's health and wellbeing and the Joint Engagement Event was a great opportunity to hear about all the cross-cutting work that's going on across our partnership. By taking this holistic, multiagency, collaborative approach we really can make a difference to the lives of people in East Ayrshire, but we know that there's still lots more work to be done"

Lynne McNiven, Director of Public Health and Chair of the CPP Executive Officers' Group.