Managing Reconfiguration, Delivering Change

Alex LinkstonChief Executive

Library Services – Supporting Communities

‘Books on Prescription’

Health Information Points

Homebound Outreach Services

Bookstart with Surestart

PC taster sessions

Blackburn Connected

Unique Service in West Lothian

Integration of CIS and Library Services

Community Engagement and Involvement

Community Facility

Regenerating Communities - Context

14 datazones in the most deprived 15% in Scotland – remain differences in health, prosperity, education and overall quality of life

Benefit Culture – 17,500 currently receiving out of work benefit (16.7% of working age population compared to 17.4% in Scotland)

High level of More Choices More Chances group in Scotland – 19.6% of school leavers unemployed or destination not known compared to 13.6% in Scotland as a whole

Health Inequalities

Regenerating Communities - Structure Plan

24,000 new homes before 2020

50% in New Communities

Infrastructure near capacity – unique in Scotland

Regenerating Communities – Integrating Services

High levels of health deprivation and benefit dependency

Provide comprehensive range of health, well-being and leisure services

Improved access to integrated health, social, fitness and employment information services

Facilities include 2 GP Practices, Dental Practice, Community Health, CIS and Library, Community/Youth Room, Pharmacy, Police, Community Café, Refurbished pool and Games Hall, changing Village, multi purpose rooms available to local groups

Fauldhouse Partnership Centre

Regenerating Communities – Localising Services

Daisy Drop In Centre

•Craigshill had highest level of deprivation in West Lothian

•Increase access to appropriate and better co-ordinated services to parents and young children

•Voluntary Organisation Status – managed by local parents group

Regenerating Services – Outcome AgreementWest Lothian Outcome Planning Model

5 Life Stages

Adults of Working Age

Older peopleYoung People in Transition

School AgeEarly Years

The future is not a place we are going but one we are creating……The paths to it are not found but made…….…And the activity of making them changes both the makers and the destination…………

American futurologist