Transcript Presentation - South Ayrshire Council

How our SOA presents our
sustainable development performance
•Partnership
reporting mechanism to Scottish Government
– working together to achieve common aims
•Common
•Evolving
•Based
duties
priorities emerging (eg CC Act)
over years – changing circumstances
on local priorities and outcomes, and statutory
•Relevant
indicators and actions supporting them
•FOR THE
2011/12 REPORTING PERIOD!
Common areas?
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Climate Change Act (Scotland) 2009
◦ Partner climate change declaration
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Biodiversity duty
◦ LBAP, Greenspace Strategy etc
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Strategic Environmental Assessment
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Best value
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Community engagement & awareness raising
What works?
1. Someone has to...
2. gather it regularly (preferably annually)...
3. in a unit of measurement that means
something to the reader
4. Indicators that show the progress of
multiple local partners, and certainly
more than one
What doesn’t work?
 Inclusion of individual organisational
plans doesn’t work just now...
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Each organisation will have it’s own service
delivery plans
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In the long term we will have the ability to
collate these through COVALENT
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In the short term attention must focus on
collective performance measures which
otherwise wouldn’t be collated on a
community wide basis
Exceptions?
There are some exceptions which
Scottish Government make clear that
must be included in SOAs
 There are some things which several
partners measure independently which, if
a common measure can be found, can be
reflected collectively now – have to
ensure measures are comparable and
avoid double counting
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What will this exercise tell us?
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Which are our priority indicators that showcase
our collective action in a meaningful way
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Which are useful individual contributions which
organisations should be commended for and
which we will ultimately look to capture through
COVALENT in future

Which are perhaps less robust indicators and we
can recommend are reviewed
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Where we need to focus our development work
(actions which need to be SMARTened, indicators
which require to be aligned)
Thinking about our indicators
Action – Raise awareness in schools of energy efficiency and waste
Indicator – No. of pupils receiving awareness lessons
Who has
responsibility
for gathering
the data?
Strengths
Weaknesses
Energy Agency
How often is
this undertaken
and when?
What is the
unit of
measurement?
Which partners
progress
reflected?
No. of pupils
Energy Agency
Council
Output rather
than outcome
measure
Discrete piece of
work which
doesn’t involve
wider partnership
Thinking about our indicators
Action – Develop and implement a new Local Housing Strategy for South Ayrshire
Indicator – Development process completed and strategy produced
Who has
responsibility
for gathering
the data?
Strengths
Weaknesses
How often is
this undertaken
and when?
What is the
unit of
measurement?
Which partners
progress
reflected?
See next answer
Yes or no – not
an indicator but
an action. Action
is completed.
Council
Council
Thinking about our indicators
Action – Implement recommendations of the Ayrshire Biodiversity Action Plan
Indicator – No. of LBAP actions completed, underway, or not started
Who has
responsibility
for gathering
the data?
Strengths
Local Biodiversity
Action Plan
Partnership
Weaknesses
Do governance
arrangements for
this partnership
ensure a clear
main contact
responsible for
gathering this
data?
How often is
this undertaken
and when?
What is the
unit of
measurement?
Which partners
progress
reflected?
Several partners
are involved in
the LBAP
Progress towards
an action
•an output rather
than an outcome
•one action can
be very different
to the next
Specific partners
vary from action
to action
Thinking about our indicators
Action – NHS Ayrshire and Arran Reduction of Carbon Emissions from vehicle fleet
Indicator – Tonnes CO2
Who has
responsibility
for gathering
the data?
Strengths
NHS A&A
Weaknesses
NHS has been
approached for
this information
but was unable to
provide in 2010
How often is
this undertaken
and when?
What is the
unit of
measurement?
Annually
Carbon dioxide,
tonnes
Which partners
progress
reflected?
NHS
Do you have new indicators?
Prepared some to show your own
organisations progress towards the public
sector climate change duty?
 Have other colleagues working on some?
 Required to report to other bodies /
stakeholders / customers / clients?
 How do you know your organisation is
performing?
 Can any of these answers help
information this piece of work?

Next steps...
Summary
 Review for 2011/12 reporting period but ground work needed
now

Evolving process – will always change to reflect existing and new
priorities
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Our focus will be on positive, strong indicators which tell the
story and help us deliver our joint outcomes
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Routes for other actions / indicators will also be highlighted
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We will feedback completed tables and recommendations prior
to next partnership meeting
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Partnership discussion and development required at next meeting
Questions / Discussion
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Areas where partners can come together
to add value?