EQUALITY BULLETIN – Issue Twelve: January 2007 News & views from Glasgow’s Equality Forums and Glasgow City Council Contents: + (01) Introduction + (02) Community Planning and the Equalities Hub + (03) Women’s Voices In Community Planning + (04) “We Need Resourced.....” + (05) Community Planning – A Local Investment For LGBT People? + (06) www.lgbtcommunity.org.uk A New Web-Based Guide For Community Planning Professionals + (07) Engaging with Black and Minority Ethnic and Refugee Communities in Scotland today: the challenges for Community Planning + (08) Glasgow’s Community Planning Partnership: An Introduction + (09) Local community planning partnership areas + (10) Voluntary Sector Involvement Structures For Glasgow’s Community Planning Partnership + (11) Further Information Resources + (12) Back page: Glasgow’s Equality Networks; Aims And Submission Details; Formats; E-Newsletters; Contact Details; Disclaimer + (01) INTRODUCTION Community Planning Issue What is Community Planning, and what does it mean for you, your community, the services you get, and the organisations you are involved with? How can we ensure that the concern for equality is built in from the start - and what does that mean in practice? This issue of the Bulletin aims to begin to answer some of these questions. Over the following pages there are views and recommendations from those involved in various voluntary sector organisations in the city, an update on the development of the Equalities Hub, and an introduction to Community Planning from the Community Planning Partnership. + (02) COMMUNITY PLANNING AND THE EQUALITIES HUB Glasgow is abuzz with rumour about the Equalities Hub. Who is involved? Who is in charge? Has it got any money? How can I get hold of some of it? What’s it all about anyway? This article answers some of those questions. The legal bit: The law says that Community Planning Partnerships (CPP) must: • Make sure people and communities are genuinely engaged in the decisions made on public services which affect us (‘community engagement’). • Ensure organisations work together in providing better public services (emergency services, Council services, education, employment, enterprise, transport etc). • Encourage equal opportunities, specifically on the grounds of sex or marital status, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, language or social origin, religious and political beliefs. The Glasgow Equalities Hub process: In January 2006 Glasgow Community Planning Partnership (CPP) asked Glasgow’s four Voluntary Sector Equality Networks to develop ideas for a new body or structure (an ‘Equalities Hub’) to help them to tackle equalities in community engagement. Glasgow Disability Alliance, Glasgow Black Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Network, Glasgow Women’s Voluntary Sector Network and the West of Scotland LGBT Forum have been negotiating with Glasgow Community Planning Ltd since then. Glasgow CPP has now agreed to fund an Equalities Hub to March 2008 – up to £115,199 for 06/07 and up to £263,104 for 07/08. The funding is for: - initial consultation and development activities (the ‘Hub’ defining its priorities by talking to the 10 Local Community Planning Hubs, 3 Thematic Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs), equalities groups/organisations, public service providers and other key stakeholders). - implementation activities (training and support to improve equalities in community engagement for the Local Hubs, Thematic SIPs, equalities groups, public service providers and other stakeholders). - measuring activities (ensuring that all Community planning partners agree on measures, indicators and data collection methods for equalities in community engagement). - publicity activities (telling people what the Equalities Hub is doing). - a full time Manager, full time Admin/Finance Officer, 4 x half post Development Workers and some specialised sessional staffing to implement these activities. - office costs for the workers. - development and support for the Equalities Hub Directors (developing policies, training needs analysis, development days). Who Is In Charge Of The Equalities Hub?: The management of the Hub is being undertaken by a new Limited Company: Glasgow Equalities Partnership (GEP). This Company has been formed collectively by the four Equality Networks each of which can have two GEP Directors. GEP will hold the funding for the Equalities Hub, will be responsible for ensuring that the work of the Hub is successfully delivered against defined benchmarks, and will be responsible for employing any staff. As with any funding arrangement, GEP will be accountable to Glasgow Community Planning Ltd for the Equalities Hub programme of work. Who’s who then?: Most of the staff are now in place. They are: Karen Willey – Manager Karen Gould – Administrator Heather McArthur – Development Officer (Disabilities) Jean Monaghan – Development Officer (LGBT) Maryam Wasim – Development Officer (BME) The only post currently vacant is the Development Officer (Women). Where are they?: The team are in the process of setting up their office – there are no email addresses yet but you can write to them at: Suite 311, The Pentagon Centre, 36 Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ or Telephone 0141 221 8938 What will the Equalities Hub actually do?: Broadly, the Equalities Hub will make sure: • That public services and other Community Planning structures follow best practice in engaging with the diverse communities of Glasgow • That all Glasgow's diverse communities have the right support to tell public services and other Community Planning structures what they want. • That the delivery of public services genuinely becomes more equal as a result of this community engagement. The Equalities Hub will complement and support the Community Planning community engagement work done by the 10 Local Community Planning Hubs and the 3 Thematic SIPs (Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance, Routes Out of Prostitution and The Big Step). Two examples 1. The Equalities Hub might train and support public transport providers to talk in the most appropriate and meaningful ways with LGBT groups about local and citywide transport needs; the Equalities Hub might also support Local Hubs’ involvement in this process; the Equalities Hub could then work with LGBT communities, Local Hubs and public transport providers to help them measure real resultant differences in transport provision for LGBT groups. 2. Job Centre Plus might review their policies and practices on making their service meaningful to Black and Ethnic Minority (BEM) communities across Glasgow. The Equalities Hub could work with them, Local Hubs and the Thematic SIP (Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance) to ensure that they hold effective consultation events which take into account the diversity of the BEM community. The Equalities Hub could again work with all to agree measures of equalities success from the process. How should I keep in touch with the Equalities Hub?: The four Glasgow Equalities Partnership Directors are: Harriette Campbell Glasgow Women’s Voluntary Sector Network harriette2003@yahoo.co.uk Alistair Smith The West of Scotland LGBT Forum 0141 221 7203 Jatin Haria Glasgow Black Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Network jatin@gara.org.uk Tressa Burke Glasgow Disability Alliance tressaburke@gdaonline.co.uk Equalities Hub developments will be reported by the Directors to their own specific Equality Network meetings. So, if you work in your own interests’ area in the voluntary or community sector, this is another reason to join the relevant Network for you. Please contact the relevant person above if you are interested in becoming involved. You should also look out for opportunities to start to engage with the Equalities Hub staff in stakeholder events starting as soon as the staff have been through their induction process and the priorities agreed with the GEP Board. Richard Brunner, Equality Networks Development Worker, Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector, 1 November 2006 (with an update by Karen Willey, Manager, Equalities Hub, February 2007) Richard moved on to a new job at the end of 2006, the current Equality Networks Development Worker at GCVS is Ruth Forrest. You can contact Ruth on 0141 332 2444 or email ruth.forrest@gcvs.org.uk + (03) WOMEN’S VOICES IN COMMUNITY PLANNING ‘Community Planning is about the structures, processes and behaviours necessary to ensure that organisations work together and with communities to improve the quality of people’s lives, through more effective, joined up and appropriate delivery of services’ This is the definition used by both the Scottish Executive and Communities Scotland at the beginning of the Community Planning process. It is, therefore, essentially about the process for improving services to local areas in a ‘joined up’ way. Equality was supposed to be embedded throughout the process and was legally defined by the Scotland Act rather than UK legislation, giving it a far wider interpretation. Community Planning was therefore an opportunity for women in communities to not only Influence how services were delivered but also to ensure an equalities perspective was part of that service delivery. Women in communities therefore needed to know what was happening, what questions to ask and what support they were entitled to have in order to hold policy makers to account. Engender ran training courses for women in 3 areas of Scotland, including Glasgow. Part of the focus of the training was to try to demystify the Community Planning process in order for women to be able to understand and influence that process, in particular the delivery of community services to meet that community’s needs. We developed some materials/exercises specifically aimed at challenging policy makers and ensuring that women made a difference at community level. Prior to the training, very few of the women participants had heard of the Community Planning process. During the training, we were able to highlight opportunities for women to become more involved and it was useful having Community Planning experts’ input. However, due to the fairly bureaucratic structure and membership of Community Planning Partnerships, it seemed that the whole process was being overseen by the ‘usual suspects’ ie officials, Councillors etc. Clearly, the key organisation for ensuring Community Planning succeeds, is the local authority and yet local authorities in general are perceived as being remote from their ‘communities’. One of the assumptions made in the development stage of Community Planning was that ‘communities’ are aware of how local authorities and other public bodies work. In reality, people have very little understanding of how policy/decision makers operate. Yet, the decisions that they make affect the whole community. If women are to play their part in working towards a more inclusive community, through the Community Planning process, then they need to have the resources available for them to understand the structures that control that process. Women are usually fairly active in organisations within their own communities and are often heading up lone parents families. They therefore have little time to participate in ‘another structure’ unless they can influence that structure. Women are also not homogenous. Engender has been working with some Gypsy/Traveller women over the past few months, trying to engage with them and encourage them to be more active/vocal in relation to services provided by local authorities and other agencies. However, as they are an under- represented group, they are even more marginalized in relation to the whole Community Planning process. If the Community Planning process is to be successful in that all ‘communities’ are actively engaged in relation to service delivery, then some thought and resources have to go into ensuring that equality and diversity are embedded in that process. Community Planning as a process for involvement and influence by the whole community has now been around for a reasonable length of time and yet, it is still seen as a ‘mystery’ to lots of women within their own community. Jeanette Timmins, Engender, 26 Albany St, Edinburgh EH1 3QH Tel: 0131 558 9596 info@engender.org.uk + (04) “WE NEED RESOURCED.....” When asked to do this article about a voluntary sector worker’s view on the changes to Community Planning structures and what’s needed in order to be involved, I was slightly surprised as I’m known for “going off on one” at the mere hint of another change in structure at the City Council. Now change is not necessarily a bad thing…..however in the last 13 years with Wise Women I’ve seen, urban aid, urban regeneration , areas of priority treatment, priority partnership areas, social inclusion partnership areas, social inclusion budget thematic partnerships and mini SIPS come and go. Now TADA!!!!!!! Community Planning Partnerships and Pathfinders come on down. Quite frankly I’m confused and I know I’m not the only one! Some of our existing Social Inclusion Partnerships have been incredibly effective at ensuring certain social issues are kept on Governmental agendas at a local, national and international level. Violence Against Women, People Seeking Asylum, Women involved in Prostitution and LGBT (historically unpopular issues) have greatly benefited from policy makers sitting round the table with grass root service providers hashing out what works and what doesn’t. We should be proud that Glasgow City Council is one of the most proactive City Councils in Britain on issues of Violence Against Women and we are lucky to have Councillors who are extremely proactive on issues of discrimination and exclusion. To me…..it was working…I wasn’t aware it needed to be fixed. I recognise that Glasgow City Council is a huge monster of a machine which tries to move with the times, I support the need to develop and grow and appreciate the upheaval that causes…..But don’t you just feel like your getting somewhere with it when they wheeech it all out from under you shouting its time for change. Issuing us with mind maps and new jargon and catchy phrases which drives everybody round the bend cause like a bad Take That tune, you just cant help singing along. People who are developing the new Community Planning Process have said many things about the benefits of working this way. The Scottish Executive have stated that all Council’s have to lead on a Community Planning process, bring together all relevant partners to work jointly, facilitate consultation in delivering services and ensure issues of equality and diversity should always be taken into account. Isn’t that what we have been doing? Sounds great….however some organisations, particularly some Violence Against Women Projects have concerns that the new process moves us further away from direct access to decision makers. This is bound to have an impact on the great work over the past few years raising profiles of issues surrounding violence and abuse. The setting up of the Glasgow Equalities Partnership (run by the 4 existing equality networks) will in some way address the issue of Women, Disabled People, LGBT People and Black Peoples inequality . But the sheer number of hours the already overstretched voluntary organisations have put into setting this up is astonishing. Few of us have budgets to be involved with these processes. Our funding is for direct service provision. GCC tells us that. Departments we are accountable to from, OSCR, The Care Commission to SWD Supporting People tell us that. Constantly juggling direct service provision and endless partnership meetings is a nightmare. And yes I know everyone is busy but it’s doubtful Social Work needs to close for a couple of hours to let someone go to a meeting! Or that Strathclyde Police reps attendance at meetings mean they miss their targets, get their funding pulled have to take cuts in salaries or lose posts. Its not the first time its happened in the voluntary sector, and yes it’s improved but the threat is still there and still very real to us because every change brings more meetings and more time away from service users. We are not naive in the voluntary sector. We know the bigger picture is important. But a woman going into Woman’s Aid doesn’t care if we are out there fighting the good fight at a political level ….all she wants is the office open so she can get a refuge space for her and the kids. This is not news to anyone…it’s been said before. Every meeting I have attended regarding Community Planning, the issue of capacity building for Voluntary Organisations is always high on the agenda. So yes I’ve blabbed on. I’ve used the maximum words allowed for an article. Maybe I should have just written “We need resourced……see the previous 25 years Minutes”. Frances Monighan, Wise Women, 120 Sydney Street, Glasgow G31 1JF Tel: 0141 550 7557, Textphone: 0141 550 7558 Fax: 0141 550 4443 + (05) COMMUNITY PLANNING – A LOCAL INVESTMENT FOR LGBT PEOPLE? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people live in every area of Glasgow and are friends, neighbours and community members. Sometimes our local communities are aware of our sexual or gender orientation and the issues we face in our daily lives, but this depends on whether we live in an area that has healthy community cohesion and a general willingness to accept diversity. In many local communities this is not the case. In areas where other overwhelming issues of exclusion exist, such as poverty and other forms of deprivation, it is all too easy for a community to feel the need for a ‘scapegoat’. Where issues like poverty, poor educational attainment, poor access to services, addictions and unemployment exist, there is a communal lack of self esteem which produces a desperate desire to appear more affluent and show ourselves as being ‘part of’ a community. The need to give shape to often chaotic lives often prevents whole sections of a community from active participation in community life. Examples of this exist throughout the city where already impoverished and struggling communities have been expected to accept an influx of asylum seekers with no explanation or ‘bedding in period’ that would encourage integration and the acceptance of culture blending. It has taken violent deaths and confrontations for these communities to eventually blend themselves and refuse to live under such conditions. The indigenous populations of areas such as Sighthill now live, mostly in harmony, with their new neighbours from widely diverse cultural backgrounds and lessons should be taken from these local efforts and replicated on a much wider national scale. LGBT people however, often do not have the advantage of being closely grouped in geographical areas. They lack also the capacity to group themselves together to have a more powerful voice – often they are dealing with the other, more immediate, issues of social exclusion mentioned above and their sexual or gender orientation is not high on their list of priorities in terms of exercising their right to participate in community life as their ‘out’ selves. Fear of repercussions, such as homophobic attacks from neighbours who are unaware of the realities of LGBT life, keeps many LGBT people ‘closeted’ and unable to function fully as a whole person. This affects self esteem and can cause mental health problems, further removing them from participation in society – to the detriment of both themselves and society/local communities. Skills they have not been able to develop, severed or broken education and low life opportunities and expectations exacerbate these problems. In addressing these problems, those involved in the implementation of Community Planning – from strategic heads of development to frontline service staff – need to have a deep awareness of the barriers facing LGBT people in their local communities. This needs to begin at a central level and feed out to staff at local hubs so that all community members can be served with equity. Stereotypes need to be deconstructed and a campaign to show LGBT people as citizens, community members and useful civic participants is vital if community planning is to deliver to its widest audience. This campaign should use clear language – the use of the word ‘lesbian’ for example is often avoided or used as an insult, and is often watered down to ‘gay woman’ which people seem to find more acceptable. Young lesbians in communities then sense this ‘shame’ and an identity that should carry the same pride and self esteem as any other is tarnished and whispered with shame – perpetuating the stereotype and the need to hide our real selves from our communities. There is an opportunity for Community Planning to engage with almost 58,000 LGBT people in the Glasgow Area. 58,000 people who can offer skills and life experience that can only enrich every community throughout the city. And far too many people to leave disengaged and disaffected. Ruth Black, Glasgow LGBT Centre Manager and co-convenor of the West of Scotland Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Forum + (06) www.lgbtcommunity.org.uk A NEW WEB-BASED GUIDE FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING PROFESSIONALS The website gives a brief introduction to some of the challenges that community planning professionals face in involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in community planning, and some practical suggestions for overcoming these barriers. It’s free, and easy to use -- so check it out! There is also free training available to help staff teams get the most out of the site. Please contact Sarah Gamble at the Equality Network on 07020 933 952 or email: sarah@equality-network.org. + (07) ENGAGING WITH BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES IN SCOTLAND TODAY: THE CHALLENGES FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING If Community Planning is for all communities then what are the challenges for Community Planning partners in engaging with the BME and refugee communities in Scotland? Inclusive community engagement is about challenging assumptions and discrimination and removing the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives. It recognises that people do not ‘fit into’ groups. They will have differing needs and experiences and will face different barriers regardless of what group or community they identify with, or we think they identify with. That is why it is important to involve as many people in service change. However one of the major challenges facing Community Planning Partners will be in accessing the BME community and supporting their involvement in decision-making. Historically the BME communities have been excluded from traditional consultation and engagement methods because they have been deemed ‘hard to reach’. Therefore Community Planning needs to go beyond consultation with the ‘usual’ suspects,. These are individuals who often present themselves as ‘spokes people’ or representatives of whole communities. In order to do that Community Planning Partners will have to actively target BME young people, women and men and support their involvement in decision making by providing human and financial resources, training and capacity building sessions to increase participation levels within current and future community engagement structures. This also applies to the Refugee communities. Ongoing issues of lack of appropriate childcare, racism and discrimination, lack of information in appropriate formats also inhibit meaningful engagement and involvement. Parveen Khan, Chair of the Glasgow Equalities Partnership and member of Glasgow Black and Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Network ….Parveen works for Health Scotland as a Community Development Manager, the recommendations she sets out below are informed by her knowledge of the work the NHS has been engaged in relating to Patient Focus Public Involvement (PFPI) strategies, Fair For All, and the Race relations Amendment Act…. Recommendations: The following recommendations set out how to work towards more inclusive community engagement. • Consult with people on all services, not just those that focus on assumed areas of interest. People use a wide-range of services so it is important that all services are designed to take account of differences in age, disability, gender, race, sexual orientation or spirituality. For example: Some people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender will be as interested in the delivery of cancer services as they will be in sexual health services. • Be clear about why you are involving people. Make sure people who are invited to be part of a forum, consultation meeting or any community engagement activity are properly supported. For example: If you have welcomed the involvement of a person with a disability make sure all correspondence and communication is in a format that is accessible to them. It is no good giving a person who has a visual impairment a printed copy of an agenda if they can not read it, and similarly a person with communication support needs such as aphasia or a person with dementia will need to have any papers sent out in advance to give them an opportunity to read it beforehand. • Think about the value of each person’s contribution instead of viewing him or her as a representative of a particular group. The barriers they face and their experiences may be typical of many local people. For example: Involving someone whose first language is not English will actually bring experience of barriers faced by many people e.g. in following signage, using public transport or communicating with staff. • Think about the images you use in publicity material to make sure they reflect your local population. People need to feel represented in the services you provide, before they will want to be involved. • Monitor membership to make sure it includes people with a wide range of background and personal circumstances. This should be done after all community engagement activities to identify any gaps in representation. If you identify any gaps, work with local service users and organisations to find out how best to involve them in the future. • Find out if anyone else has already done similar work, which could be used as a learning experience. • Don’t expect a small number of people to be representative of larger community groups. Members on a forum may be elected to participate on behalf of a constituent group, and they may be expected to report back to them, but additional events and consultation exercises will be needed to make sure a diverse range of views are continuously feeding into service design and development. For example: Having a member of your public partnership forum from a minority ethnic community will not mean that they will be aware of, or have experienced, the barriers faced by other people from the same ethnicity, or other minority communities living in Scotland. They will be able to relate to the type of disadvantages that exist, but work to address these will have to involve people from various backgrounds. • Make sure all participants are informed of the results of their involvement using formats and methods, which suit their needs. + (08) GLASGOW’S COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP: AN INTRODUCTION Glasgow Community Planning Partnership: Glasgow Community Planning Partnership (GCPP) has been established to manage the community planning process as described in The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003. Glasgow Community Planning Partnership brings key public, private, community and voluntary representatives together with the aim of delivering better, more joined-up public services in the city. An important part of the Partnership’s work is to ensure that the targeted regeneration of Glasgow continues to improve the quality of life for all of our citizens and visitors. We aim to build on our successes by making sure that people and communities are genuinely engaged in the decisions made on public services which affect them, and ensuring commitment from organisations to work together in providing better public services. Glasgow Community Planning Ltd: Glasgow Community Planning Ltd was established in November 2005 to support Community Planning at both a citywide and local level. This structure replaces the former SIP structure in managing community regeneration activity across Glasgow. Glasgow is represented by ten local community planning structures across the city. The local community planning structures closely follow the boundaries for the new multi-member wards for the City. In addition, the boundaries for these structures are co-terminus with the five new Community Health & Social Care Partnership areas that cover the city. This geographical structure represents a shift away from the former SIP structure, in that every community in Glasgow now falls within a Local Community Planning Partnership Area. Some deprived communities in Glasgow did not lie within the boundaries of the former SIPs, but now even small areas where there is a high concentration of deprivation fall within the new Community Planning structure. The 10 Local Community Planning Partnerships are: East Area: Shettleston, Baillieston & Glasgow North East (part) and East Centre & Calton North Area: Springburn & Glasgow North East (part) and Maryhill/Kelvin & Canal West Area: West and Central & West South West Area: Greater Pollok/Newlands/Auldburn and Govan/Craigton South East Area: Pollokshields East & Southside Central and Langside & Linn National Priorities for Regeneration: Scottish Ministers have outlined a number of National Priorities for Community Regeneration which set out the key themes against which progress should be made in order to meet the Closing the Opportunity Gap objectives. These are: • Building Strong Safe Attractive Communities • Getting People Back into Work • Improving Health • Raising Educational Attainment, and • Engaging Young People • Effective Community Engagement Glasgow’s Community Planning Themes: Glasgow Community Planning Partnership has taken account of these National Priorities in setting its regeneration objectives and in drafting this Regeneration Outcome Agreement to ensure that local priorities link clearly with the national requirements of the CRF. Glasgow’s priorities are set out in the Community Plan. These five key themes provide the strategic regeneration objectives that will assist Glasgow to meet its vision of an inclusive city. These themes provide the focus for joint working across the City and have strong linkages to and relevance for the National Priorities for Community Regeneration. The themes are: • A Healthy Glasgow • A Learning Glasgow • A Safe Glasgow • A Vibrant Glasgow • A Working Glasgow Glasgow Community Planning Partnership Ltd, 2006 CONTACT: Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Core Office, 39 St Vincent Place, Glasgow G1 2ER Tel: 0141 572 1300 Area Offices are listed below. The GCPL website (soon to be updated) is at: http://www.glasgowcommunityplanningpartnership.org.uk + (09) LOCAL COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP AREAS Each community planning partnership area is listed below, with contact details for the Glasgow Community Planning Ltd Area Team that covers it. A list of the Voluntary Sector Members for each Area Board is also included (if in place). Each Area Board also has four Community Reps - to contact these reps please contact the relevant Area Team. Some Area Boards have nominated one of the Community Reps to also be an Equality Rep - please contact the relevant Area Team for more details. BAILLIESTON, SHETTLESTON & EASTERN GLASGOW NE Covered by the East Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Westwood Business Centre, 69 Aberdalgie Rd, Glasgow G34 9HJ Tel 0141 771 9338 Fax 0141 771 3856 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: Paul Cowan, Glasgow North East Carers, 51 Trondra Place, Glasgow, G34 9AX gnecarerscentre@hotmail.com Tel. 0141 781 0728 Deputy: Marjory Maxwell, Cairnbrook HA, 120 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, Glasgow, G34 9JW marjorymaxwell@hotmail.com Tel. 0141 771 8054 EAST CENTRE / CALTON Covered by the East Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Westwood Business Centre, 69 Aberdalgie Rd, Glasgow G34 9HJ Tel 0141 771 9338 Fax 0141 771 3856 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: John Ferguson, Parkhead HA, 40 Helenvale Street, Glasgow, G31 4TE enquiries@parkheadha.org.uk Tel. 0141 556 6226 Deputy: Derek Kelter, Momentum Scotland, 74 Springfield Road, Dalmarnock, G40 3ET derek.kelter@momentumscotland.org Tel. 0141 550 4922 Community Rep Members: Yvonne Kucuk, Marie McCairns, Ann McGuire, Daniel O’Connell You can contact Community Reps using the contact details for the East Team GCPL Ltd above. Equalities Rep: The Board decided that all Board Members should take responsibility for equalities rather than have one Equalities Rep GOVAN & CRAIGTON Covered by the South West Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Festival Business Centre, 150 Brand Street,Glasgow G51 1DH Tel 0141 314 0065 Fax 0141 427 3666 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: Robin Webster, Walmer Crescent Association, 7 Walmer Crescent, Glasgow, G51 1AT robin.webster@mac.com Tel. 0141 427 4494 Deputy: Margaret Stevenson, Talbot Association, HQ, Kingston Halls, 344 Paisley Road, Glasgow, G5 8RE margaret.stevenson13@ntlworld.com Tel. 0141 429 4541 LANGSIDE AND LINN Covered by South East Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Adelphi Centre,12 Commercial Road, Glasgow G5 0PQ Tel 0141 429 2564 Fax 0141 429 7346 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: Sheila Broadley, Castlemilk Community Transport , 45 Glenwood Place, Block B, Unit 12, Castlemilk, Glasgow, G45 9UH info@castlemilkcommunitytransport.org.uk Tel. 0141 630 1360 Deputy: Anne Stuart, Castlemilk Community Transport, 45 Glenwood Place, Block B, Unit 12, Castlemilk, Glasgow, G45 9UH Isabel@castlemilkcommunitytransport.org.uk Tel. 0141 630 1360 POLLOKSHIELDS EAST & SOUTHSIDE CENTRAL Covered by South East Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Adelphi Centre,12 Commercial Road, Glasgow G5 0PQ Tel 0141 429 2564 Fax 0141 429 7346 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: John Gravatt, Barnardo’s Scotland, Suite 5/3, 45 Finnieston Street, Glasgow, G3 8JU john.gravatt@barnardos.org.uk Tel 0141 222 4700 Deputy: Shabir Banday, Reach Community Health Project, Network House, 311 Calder Street, Glasgow G42 7NQ shabir@reachhealth.org.uk Tel. 0141 585 8090 MARYHILL, KELVIN AND CANAL Covered by North Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Rosemount Workspace, 145 Charles Street, Glasgow G21 2QA Interim Voluntary Sector Members: Isobel Rusk, Possil Stress Centre, Ardoch House, 25 Ardoch Street, Glasgow isobelrusk@possilstresscentre.co.uk Deputy: Stewart Bell, Shakespeare St. Youth Centre, 95 Shakespeare Street, Glasgow, G20 8LE shakespeareyouthclub@yahoo.co.uk SPRINGBURN & WESTERN GLASGOW NORTH EAST Covered by North Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, Rosemount Workspace, 145 Charles Street, Glasgow G21 2QA Interim Voluntary Sector Members: Frank Quinn, Germiston Community Association, 297 Forge Street, Glasgow, G21 2AH info.gca@btconnect.com Tel. 0141 770 4575 Deputy: Margaret W.O. Gray, North Glasgow Caring for Carers, 193 Springburn Way, Springburn, Glasgow, G21 1DU northglasgowcarerscentre@yahoo.co.uk Tel. 0141 558 8001 PARTICK WEST, HILLHEAD AND ANDERSTON / CITY Covered by West Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, The Mercat, 31 Hecla Square, Glasgow G15 8NH Tel 0141 944 8828 Fax 0141 949 1589 Interim Voluntary Sector Members: David Cruikshank, Partick Community Association, The Annexe HLC, 9a Stewartville Street, Partick, Glasgow, G11 5PE info@theannexehlc.org Tel. 0141 357 6747 Deputy: Neill Sloan, Headway Glasgow, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow n.sloan1@ntlworld.com Tel. 0141 332 8878 DRUMCHAPEL / ANNIESLAND, GARSCADDEN & SCOTSTOUNHILL Covered by West Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, The Mercat, 31 Hecla Square, Glasgow G15 8NH Tel 0141 944 8828 Fax 0141 949 1589 GREATER POLLOK / NEWLANDS / AULDBURN Covered by South West Team, Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, The Wedges, 1066 Barrhead Road, Glasgow G53 5AB Tel 0141 882 8368 fax 0141 882 6253 + (10) VOLUNTARY SECTOR INVOLVEMENT STRUCTURES FOR GLASGOW’S COMMUNITY PLANNING PARTNERSHIP Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) has supported the development of voluntary sector membership in Local Community Planning partnerships in the last 6 months. An important step forward was taken in Summer 2006 by Glasgow Community Planning Partnership, when the Partnership funded a one-off exercise to enable GCVS to support the election of voluntary sector member for each of the 10 Local Community Planning Partnerships, and to consult with the sector about how best to support its strong future engagement. As a result there is now both broad consensus about the way forward, and consistency about what should happen across the city. Local voluntary sector engagement: There was unanimous support from organisations attending the meetings across the 10 local community planning areas for the establishment of mechanisms to build voluntary sector involvement in community planning. In most areas what was described was a mix of: • consistent, accessible, useful information • opportunities to meet, brief and receive feedback from voluntary sector members involved in different partnership structures • a periodic opportunity to get together as organisations to discuss involvement in community planning and to agree key issues to take forward within the local community planning partnership. It was very clear that in most areas organisations identified that the above work should be carried out via some form of Local Voluntary Sector Forum. Whatever the final form of local support structure, this should be for local voluntary organisations to decide. A key focus is in on working actively to improve the quality of local partnership working. Baseline resources to support the development of local engagement and involvement structures would need to cover meeting expenses, administration, communications capacity, IT resources, learning and development resources, local capacity building and opportunities for cross city collaboration and ideas development. In each area it has been agreed that it is important that wherever possible this work is undertaken by a local organisation. In many areas there are local organisations willing and able to take on the work. In other areas this capacity may need to be developed. City wide mechanisms: what the Sector says it needs: Of the 860 organisations with paid staff currently listed on Infobase, 54% (467) of them operate on a city wide basis. When asked about local and citywide engagement, it was clear that very few organisations have the resources to engage across each of the local areas and that additional mechanisms are required to maximise their input. While organisations have made it clear they have the responsibility to respond/ contribute to community planning consultation and working groups, in order to be able to do that effectively they told us they would require accessible information, opportunities to participate, training and development resources, effective feedback mechanisms and a central community planning information resources/ library. Organisations were specifically asked how they could act more collectively and coherently. They identified the need for a specific city wide structure to engage with community planning. GCVS was asked to co-ordinate a city-wide Forum, and seek the appropriate level of resources to enable it to provide the sector with effective ways of engaging throughout the City. For more information about the development of voluntary sector involvement in communityplanning, please contact: Martha Wardrop, Policy Officer, GCVS, 11 Queen’s Crescent, Glasgow G4 9AS Email martha.wardrop@gcvs.org.uk or telephone 0141 332 2444. + (11) FURTHER INFORMATION RESOURCES a few useful web links… ....in no particular order, and in no way pretending to be a definitive or exhasutive list! Look out for more resources on the Equality Networks Forum website (www.enf.org.uk) and in the Equality Updates weekly e-newsletter) The National Standards for Community Engagement Best practice guidance for engagement between communities and public agencies. Developed by the Scottish Community Development Centre. http://www.scdc.org.uk/ Good Practice Guidance Consultation with Equalities Groups (Scottish Executive 2002, last updated 2006) http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002/06/14850/5335 Equality Network’s guide for community planning professionals on LGBT inclusion www.lgbtcommunity.org.uk Glasgow Community Planning Partnership http://www.glasgowcpp.org.uk/ The Disability Debate (Disability Rights Commission) Including a section on increasing disabled people’s participation http://www.disabilitydebate.org/ The ‘How to… Guide’ on Engagement of Minority Ethnic Communities (Scottish Centre for Regeneration): Go to http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/ and type “Engagement of Minority Ethnic Communities” into the Search box, this will take you to the relevant page. Same difference? A guide to working with equalities groups an online guide for people working in community learning and development (CLD). Go to http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/ and type “Same difference? A guide to working with equalities groups” into the Search box, this will take you to the relevant page. Cultural Events Calendar (Commission for Racial Equality) http://www.cre.gov.uk/diversity/eventscalendar.html Into The Lion’s Den: A Practical Guide To Including Women In Regeneration (Oxfam UK Poverty Programme) Got to http://www.oxfamgb.org/ukpp/equal/regender.htm for links to this publication and to the ReGender project and much more on women and regeneration. GCVS Community Planning Resources Page: http://www.gcvs.org.uk/consultation/community_planning_resources Infobase Mapping Glasgow’s community and voluntary sector organisations. http://www.infobaseglasgow.org/ Scotland’s Community Planning http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/community-planning/ Community Planning and the Public Sector Duties (DRC, EOC and CRE, January 2007) Sets out the three Commission’s shared expectations of public bodies in terms of how they should meet their equality duties within their partnership work. http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/CPP_leaflet_for_3_Comms_conference_Jan_07.p df Regeneration: A General Formal Investigation By The CRE http://www.cre.gov.uk/about/regeneration.html Scottish Accessible Information Forum http://www.saifscotland.org.uk/ Guide To User-Led Reviews: A supplement to the SAIF Standards for Disability Information and Advice Provision in Scotland. Published by the Scottish Consumer Council, 100 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3DN. ISBN 0-9551942-8-8/978-0-9551942-8-3 © Scottish Accessible Information Forum First revised edition 2007. Contact: SAIF, Scottish Consumer Council, Royal Exchange House, 100 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3DN Tel: 0141 226 5261 Fax: 0141 221 0731 Text: 0141 226 8459 Email: info@saifscotland.org.uk Website: www.saifscotland.org.uk Community Planning Definitions - Briefing Sheet: East End Training & Resource Centre have compiled a useful 4-page briefing on Community Planning definitions. So if you need a handy document that explains the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, Community Regeneration Fund, GCPP, Regeneration Outcome Agreements (ROA), Local Community Planning Partnerships, Community Engagement, Community Plan, Community Health and Care Partnerships (CHCPs), Local Housing Strategy,Local Housing Forums, Multi Member Wards and the Proportional Voting System... 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