This Dunfermline event on June 16 2009, was run by Fife Community Planning Partnership and supported by the Community Regeneration and Tackling Poverty Learning Network.
The day focused on the three national frameworks addressing inequalities: Achieving Our Potential, Early Years and Equally Well and how they work together in practice. All are about major social problems that are interlinked and work across generations, holding back progress; children's start in life and cycles of poverty, inequality and poor health. Fife Partnership, together with the Scottish Government recognise that social policy developments in each framework need to fit together to prevent and break cycles of poverty.
The event aimed to:
- provide an opportunity for the Scottish Government to set out its approach to tackling inequalities by drawing out the key messages and connections across the frameworks
- promote discussion and learning across Community Planning Partnerships on approaches to tackling inequalities, and encourage on-going dialogue at regional levels
- consider Single Outcome Agreements (SOAs) and the community planning process as the key local mechanisms for putting the frameworks into action
- develop a learning point report for wider circulation and sharing via the Tackling Poverty Learning Network
- support colleagues to influence change by raising awareness and understanding of collective responsibilities on inequalities
Presentations
What next?
A learning point has been produced from this event you can also view a presentation on the findings of the learning point.
The network is also supporting ongoing discussions taking place within Fife and also with the Scottish Government to make sure that the lessons from the event are captured and put into practice. A meeting for these discussions took place in September 2009 and you can access the agenda.