Community planning

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

The 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.

Fife 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 Environment Protection Agency
• NatureScot
• 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.

The 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.