Community Empowerment

The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 is a wide-ranging piece of Scottish Government legislation. Part 2 of the act relates to community planning, and details the requirements for Community Planning Partnerships (CPP).  The Shetland Partnership must satisfy three key requirements of the act:

• Prepare and publish a Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP) which sets out local outcomes which the CPP will prioritise for improvement 
  Identify smaller areas within the local authority area which experience the poorest outcomes, and prepare and publish locality plans to improve outcomes on agreed priorities for these communities (the outcomes prioritised for improvement in a locality plan may differ from those in the LOIP)
• Review and report publicly on progress towards their LOIP and locality plans, and keep the continued suitability of these plans under review
• Identify smaller areas within the local authority area which experience the poorest outcomes, and prepare and publish locality plans to improve

In line with the requirements as set out in the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 the Shetland Partnership has worked hard to develop the Shetland Partnership Plan  (our LOIP) and to introduce our first locality plan: Shetland’s Islands with Small Populations.