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Community planning is a process by which all the public services within a local authority area are planned and provided: health, social care, schools, colleges, police, fire, roads, transport, waste collection and more.
A new Plan for Fife
For the first time in Fife there’s one plan for the future of public services - one plan that the council and its partners have signed up to and provides a vision for Fife for the next ten years. It’s simple, it’s straightforward and it puts fairness at the heart of everything we do, bringing Fife’s communities and services together in a way that means everyone can get involved in improving their neighbourhoods and creating a fairer Fife.
That is the Plan for Fife.
Our research team studied communities across Fife to understand various information such as:
- Population changes
- Employment prospects
We discussed many issues with local people to understand what their priorities are.
Some areas are thriving, some are doing okay, but there are other areas of Fife where there are real challenges. Too many Fifers are living in poverty - and that’s not acceptable.
This new plan puts fairness at the heart of everything we do. It brings services and communities together in new ways. Together, we can achieve this by focusing on four key themes:
- Opportunities for all
- Thriving places
- Inclusive growth and jobs
- Community led services
Applications are now being received for the Fairer Fife fund for 2018-2019. For more information, click here.
Partnership groups
The Fife Partnership Board is the community planning partnership for Fife. It provides strategic leadership, overseeing partnership activity to support the delivery of its agreed vision and outcomes.
Click here for more information about The Fife Partnership Board
Back To TopThe Fife Delivery Leads Group is responsible for supporting the co-ordination and implementation of the Plan for Fife. Delivery Leads also have a local role in terms of the Plan for Fife where they provide leadership support and champion work across Fife’s seven areas to strengthen links between local and strategic planning.
The Fife Delivery Leads Group meets four times a year. The lead partner agencies on the board are:
- Community Planning Partners
- Chief Executive, Fife Council
- Chief Executive, NHS Fife
- Chief Executive, Fife Voluntary Action
- Vice Principal, Fife College
- Chief Superintendent, Police Scotland
- Delivery Leads
- Director of Health & Social Care
- Executive Director – Communities
- Executive Director – Education & Children’s Services
- Executive Director- Enterprise & Environment
- Executive Director – Finance & Corporate Services
- Director of Public Health, NHS Fife
- Police Scotland
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Head of Communities & Neighbourhoods
- Community Managers x 8
The remit of the group includes:
- Working with partners and partnerships, including local community planning groups
- Ensuring that existing delivery arrangements are fit for purpose and identifying any gaps
- Reviewing internal and external factors and their impact on the achievement of Plan for Fife outcomes
- Providing a forum for problem solving and troubleshooting at a senior level
- Seeking and testing out potential intervention opportunities
- Managing risks that might have an impact on the achievement of outcomes
- Identifying partnership resources to support the delivery of the Plan for Fife
Local role:
- Ensuring alignment to Fife’s seven local community planning areas
- Championing community involvement / working together
- Gaining a better understanding of local challenges and help remove barriers
- Identifying resources to support local delivery
- Attending local partnership events and meetings
Fife Community Safety Partnership was established in May 1998 to take forward Fife’s work on community safety.
We endeavour to ensure that people in Fife are safe from crime, disorder, danger and free from injury and harm; Fife’s communities are socially cohesive and tolerant and, are resilient and able to support individuals to take responsibility for their wellbeing.
We bring together staff from
- Fife Council
- Police Scotland - Fife Division
- Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Fife area
- NHS Fife
- Voluntary and community organisations
- Registered Social Landlords
- Business community
To provide a local response, we operate monthly meetings with all relevant staff working in community safety in each of Fife’s seven areas: Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Levenmouth, North East and South West Fife.
Each of our local teams, and staff working Fife-wide, work towards Making Fife’s Communities Safer, one of the long term aims within Fife’s Community Plan. Our outcomes for the next three years, held in our Community Safety strategy, are:
- People feel safer
- Better support for victims
- Reduce crime and antisocial behaviour
- Reduce re-offending
- Less risk from injury in the home
- Less risk from fire
- Fewer people killed or seriously injured on the roads
Our partnership Strategic Assessment and its Annual Review for 2012 provide a background of comprehensive analysis and evidence on these community safety issues.
We encourage anyone experiencing crime or antisocial behaviour, “Don’t Put Up With It, Report It!”
To report antisocial behaviour call 03451 55 00 22 (lines open Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm). Outwith these times call police on 101. In an emergency contact 999.
We also welcome feedback and suggestions on how to make Fife - and your local community - safer.
Join us at or www.twitter.com/safeinfife
Plus, you can attend one of the regular community engagement meetings in your neighbourhood - see http://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/fife/ and click on the map for details.
Back To TopFife Environmental Partnership is responsible for the sustaining and improving our environment theme of Fife’s Community Plan. It aims to work in partnership to set a clear and strategic direction to protect and enhance Fife’s environment in a sustainable manner to pass onto future generations.
Environmental partners include:
- Fife Council
- Fife Economy Partnership/Green Business Fife
- NHS Fife
- Scottish Enterprise
- Forestry Commission
- Fife Rural Partnership
- Greenspace Scotland
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Carnegie College representing Scotland’s Colleges Fife
- University of St. Andrews
- Fife Coast and Countryside Trust
- Third sector representation
- Elected member representation
The Environmental Partnership maintains a strategic overview and contributes to the delivery of the Scottish, UK Government and European legislation and targets. Sustaining and improving our environment local outcomes include:
- Less waste
- Better local environments and a sustainable natural heritage
- More sustainable transportation
- Lower CO² emissions from energy use
- Better water, air and land quality
The remit of the group includes:
- Providing strategic leadership in the development and improvements to the environment in Fife
- Monitoring and review achievements of the environmental strategy and associated strategies and action plans
- Coordinating the work of the Fife-wide task groups and area TAPIF groups, by ensuring best practice and identifying gaps in service provision
Fife Environmental Partnership reports to the Fife Partnership Executive Group.
Back To TopThe Fife Economy Partnership is the economy theme group of the Fife Community Planning Partnership.
Formed in October 2008, the Fife Economy Partnership brings together key players from industry and the public sector to identify and drive forward strategic policies and initiatives to grow the Fife economy and make Fife the best place to do business. The Fife Economy Partnership wishes to help create a vibrant enterprise culture in Fife to address underlying enterprise weaknesses in Fife’s business base and encourage sustainable economic growth.
It comprises representatives from the private sector, Fife Chamber of Commerce, Fife Council, Scottish Enterprise, the University of St Andrews, Fife College and the Fife Public Sector.
The partnership, which meets four times a year, is chaired by Chris Parr, Chief Executive of Tullis Russell.
The partnership’s roles include setting priorities for Fife’s sustainable economic development, making sure that the public sector’s policies and activities support the growth of the Fife economy, and presenting Fife’s case to the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise.
The FEP also oversees the implementation of the Fife Economic Strategy 2017-2027.
Back To TopFife’s strategic assessment
Fife’s strategic assessment provides the evidence base for identifying priorities across Fife and those facing the seven committee areas within Fife. These priorities help to inform future work plans and provide a solid foundation for our work at a local and Fife-wide level.
For further information please contact sharon.murphy@fife.gov.uk