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ASB Information Sharing Service
The Improvement Service will be hosting a 'Showcase Event' at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 25th April (9.30 am - 2pm). Contact the Improvement Service directly to book a place.

Forth Valley GIS will be demonstrating the OASIS system that is currently being developed for the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Community Planning Partnerships. This web-based system will allow service teams who deal with aspects of antisocial behaviour to share potentially useful information with their colleagues across the partnership. A case study is available from the following link:  http://www.forthvalleygis.co.uk/Casestudy_OASIS.pdf 

Partners in Regeneration - National Regeneration Convention (02-04-08)
A note of the PiR Network Co-ordinator Meeting on 6th March in Edinburgh is available here.  Included in the note are details of the forthcoming National Regeneration Convention which will be held in Glasgow between 15 and 17 September and the organisers are looking for good examples of local regeneration to showcase.  If you have any examples or you would like to attend the Convention, please contact Anna Stansfield, Scottish Centre for Regeneration, Highlander House, 58 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA or telephone 0141 271 3735 or email anna.stansfield@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Guide to Joined-Up Working (27-02-08)
The Scottish Centre for Regeneration has just launched a new Joined-up Working How to Guide. The new guide features up-to-date case studies, resources and links to information from across Scotland and beyond. It will be updated monthly.

Single outcome agreements (26-02-08)
For those of you who are still unsure exactly what these are, the Improvement Service has produced a useful publication. More info 

Scottish Rural Development Programme
Latest information pack on the new programme.

Experience and Learning from the Scottish Outcome Agreement Pathfinders 
A paper setting out the learning that can be drawn from the Outcome Agreement pathfinder project that took place over 2006-07, written by Tracy Butler, Single Outcome Agreement Co-ordinator of East Renfrewshire Council.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 
This annual report, by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute, on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK covers low income, work, education, health, housing, disadvantaged children and exclusion from services.

Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice 
The Scottish Government recently approved the establishment of the Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice, to support intergenerational working throughout the country. More information on the Centre, a forthcoming Roadshow and details of a small grants programme in the attached Centre Newsletter. If you would like to be added to the Centre's mailing list, send your contact details to Brian McKechnie, Director, Scottish Centre for Intergenerational Practice, c/o Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde, 40 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE or by phone Tel: 0141 548 2492, or by e-mail to brian.mckechnie@strath.ac.uk

New Forum for Scottish Neighbour Statistics
A new User Group Forum has been launched for users of Scottish Neighbour Statistics to share views and examples of best practice.

Scotland's Community Planning Conference - Delivering the Benefits
Click here to view presentations, papers and reports from this major conference held on 27 November in Tulliallan Police College. You can also access lots of interesting case studies from around the country.

Volunteering in the Youth Work Sector
A new Action Plan has just been produced by the Scottish Government following the publication of the strategy earlier this year.

Single Outcome Agreements
LARIA in Scotland seminar 9th January 2008 at West Lothian Council, Linlithgow.

Social Issues in Public Procurement
The Scottish Procurement Directorate has recently published its policy note on social issues in public procurement. The document provides guidance to public sector bodies in Scotland on how and when social issues may be taken into consideration in public procurement. The note has been issued to all local authorities and other public bodies in Scotland. (24/10/07)

Changes to Enterprise Networks
Below is an extract from John Swinney's statement last week on Enterprise Networks, you can find the full statement available Scottish Parliament website.  
"We must also involve Scotland's local authorities more fully in economic development and provide them with new opportunities to contribute to growing local business success. The Government is fully committed to developing a new relationship with Scotland's councils and recognises their vital role in creating flourishing local economies and communities. That is why we believe that community planning partnerships should have a clear remit and responsibility for economic growth. The Government has made it clear that, wherever possible, local services to local areas should be delivered by local authorities. With Scottish Enterprise firmly focused on national and regional priorities, it is entirely right that local authorities should assume an enhanced role in local economic development. That approach will allow local authorities and national enterprise network programmes and personnel to come together at the local level to contribute to the single goal of higher sustainable economic growth. I also want to encourage our local authorities to develop effective working relationships with chambers of commerce and local business organisations, to enhance co-operation." (10/10/07)

Getting it Right for Everyone Conference - 13 November in Perth
Conference organised jointly by ARK Housing Association, ENABLE Scotland, Clackmannanshire Alliance and Local Area Coordination Stirling, with the aim of making people aware of those with learning disabilities and their needs in Community Planning, and to challenge equality issues in Scotland. Full details are available on the website and booking form is also available (10/10/07)

Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland
A report on the above review was published recently. Messages and recommendations from the report include the need to simplify the scrutiny governance structure and remove constraints to joint working, a need for greater coordination, for example in gathering data and planning scrutiny activity and the need for scrutiny priorities to reflect the public and user interest. Ministers will respond to the report in due course.

Latest Quarterly updates on the work of the various Partnership Task Groups