Fairer
Scotland Fund
The Scottish Government
is committed to working with local government and others to
address the social and economic disparities that exist between
our most deprived communities, entire local authority areas
and the rest of Scotland.
This commitment
is underlined in the Scottish Government's joint policy statement
with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA),
Equal
Communities in a Fairer Scotland and the resulting action
plan.
As part
of this planned approach the Fairer Scotland Fund (FSF) has
been rolled-up into all local authorities general revenue
funding for 2010-11. Local authorities and their
community planning partners have been given the autonomy to
use their combined resources to accelerate progress in tackling
individual poverty and high levels of multiple deprivation
in our communities.
Following ring-fence
removal, it will be the decisions taken on investment of community
planning partners' mainstream resources that will deliver
change for our most disadvantaged communities and vulnerable
individuals. Local authorities and their community planning
partners need to work with local people to decide how these
mainstream services and budgets can best make a difference
in tackling this persistent challenge.
Progress on the
delivery of outcomes will be monitored through Single Outcome
Agreements (SOAs), with the next round of reporting due in
Autumn 2010.
Further
information
Recent research on the implementation of the FSF and future
support needs in tackling multiple deprivation in the context
of SOAs was published on November 10, 2009. Case studies from
eight Community Planning Partnerships are included:
Informing
Future Approaches to Tackling Multiple Deprivation in Communities:
Beyond the Fairer Scotland Fund
Copies of all 2009-10
SOAs
Contact details
for all 32
local authorities can be found on the Directgov website.
Key
words: Disadvantage. Single Outcome Agreements
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