BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES St. Marys Community Facility 21 st August 2014.

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BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES St. Marys Community Facility 21 st August 2014 Slide 2 Local Community Plan Monitoring Annual review of the plan involves; Keeping tabs on progress of actions Moving things forward planning meetings, funding bids, bringing the partners together. Understanding why things dont progress lack of support, funding, resources Keeping the statistics Reporting Slide 3 ACTIONS are either Achieved On schedule Behind schedule Slide 4 Typical example community safety CS5 Young people will have access to a wider range of opportunities for positive engagement and have less opportunity to participate in behaviour which causes a nuisance to others. 2012/2013 Monitoring report this was a stable situation, diversionary activities in place, YCA complaints going down over time across the ward. However, summer 2013 emerging situation happening in Kirkton. Starting with small numbers of young people gathering at shops, causing annoyance to shop owners, customers and as numbers grow moving away from shops to cause annoyance and vandalism at ASDA and sheltered housing. Some nights as much as 40 in the crowd. Feedback from community members was vital, police and community safety wardens see a spike in number of complaints. Slide 5 Hot Spot Slide 6 So who are the partners and how do they respond? Police Scotland Community Safety Wardens Youth Work Team Community Groups Education Department Regeneration Team Everyone has there role to play in a given situation, essential that good communication happens to co-ordinate the inputs. Slide 7 What happened Meetings to discuss what, how and who could provide additional resources to tackle the situation. Kick It Kick Off/Xplore developed evening football sessions at St Pauls. Kirkton Community Centre opened its doors on Friday night for a kick about, run by management group volunteers. Youth Bus targeted the area on Thursday and Friday nights Shop keepers and ASDA staff were issued and trained in Body Worn Cameras. Police Scotland raised levels of patrols and organised day of action for Kirkton, including sports event for children. Community Safety Wardens raised number of wardens patrolling and provided Body Worn Cameras. Held a football game Wardens V Young People Regeneration Forum gave grants for additional resources for KIKO and has provided funding for a Community Arts Project. Slide 8 Youth Space Slide 9 Progress Still issues to be overcome, but there has been improvements over the summer. 40 -50 attending football on Wednesday evening Adding Monday evening for P7. Young people taking on role of peer support to younger children and gaining accreditation. Want young people to take ownership of their space hence Art project in future for park at ASDA. Body Worn Cameras have ensured everyone is more aware of negative behaviour. Slide 10 Finally Strathmartine Local Community Plan Partners responded to situation, bringing in additional resources Community/ groups and individual members supported partners Funding secured to support initiatives Process worked effectively and the monitoring recorded this year reflected that the situation in Kirkton was behind schedule and this will remain so until the area returns to normal levels and is not a hot spot. Slide 11 Questions?