Community Planning Aberdeen

Community Planning Aberdeen (Community Planning Partnership)

The main aims for Community Planning Aberdeen are:-

Making sure people and communities are genuinely engaged in the decisions made on public services which affect then: allied to
A commitment from organisations to work together, not apart, in providing better public services.(taken from Statutory Guidance Notes (2004))

Purpose:

Ensure that Community Planning activity is co-ordinated and focused on the value of working in partnership, particularly to:-

realising added value of working in partnership;
enabling existing and new partnership working to deliver outcomes;
providing a strategic overview which acknowledged interfaces and dependencies; and
mitigating the shifting social and financial impact of decisions on other partners.

Remit:

provide broad strategic direction to the Board;
monitor the activity of the Board by receiving regular reports;
maintain a focus on outcomes across all participating partners;
monitor the development and delivery of the Single Outcome Agreement;
ensure that community engagement, equalities and diversity; neighbourhood / locality planning; and sustainability are at the heart of all community planning activity.

Membership:

eight members of the Board and
the three partners with a statutory duty – NESTRANS, Scottish Enterprise and the Alcohol and Drugs Partnership;
a business representative from Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce;
Aberdeen University;
Robert Gordon University;
Aberdeen College
2 elected members from Aberdeen City Council
2 community representatives from the Aberdeen Civic Forum.
Membership will be reviewed regularly and co-option will be used when appropriate.