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2026 is a big year for Fife. We’ve got a real chance to design a better system of public services for the next generation - one that makes it easier to do the right thing, earlier and together.
Michael Enston (Fife Council Exec Director, Communities) puts forward the case for change, the need for doing things differently and four questions to shape the future challenges ahead.
Links to sources and documents referred to in the presentation
Fife has great strengths. We have talented staff, strong communities, and a track record of partnership working. We benefit from shared public service boundaries that many other places don’t have - a real advantage if we choose to use it well.
If we join forces more systematically around the needs of Fife’s people and places, everyone can benefit. Let’s build relationships, focus and simplify.
By sharing insight and knowledge, we can target our effort better and help people sooner. By designing services and infrastructure around prevention and positive intervention - not just crisis response - we can stop avoidable problems escalating. And by sharing skills, funding, buildings and other assets, we can run operations more efficiently and reduce duplication.
2026-27 is a critical window for better, system-wide conversations about the future: what genuinely needs to change, what we should stop doing, and what we need to start doing differently to meet the challenge ahead and develop a new Plan for Fife.
