Developing a New Plan for Fife 

• sets out where we’re trying to get to, what’s critical for us to collaborate on, and how we’ll work together to improve outcomes for people and places in Fife
• draws on voices and lived experience from right across our organisations and communities
• honestly addresses challenges - what’s changing in the world and what’s not working as well as it should

• establishes a new system of joint working and helps reduce strategies, plans and governance rather than being just a refresh of an old document
• helps to connect the bigger picture to everyday decisions - so teams can see how their work contributes and start to embed whole system thinking as the norm

Community planning is about how public bodies work together, and with local communities, to design and deliver better services that make a real difference to people's lives.

It drives public service reform by bringing together local public services with the communities they serve. It provides a focus for partnership working that targets specific local circumstances.

A Community Planning Partnership (or CPP) is all those services that come together to take part in community planning. There are 32 CPPs across Scotland, one for each council area. We call ours the Fife Partnership.

The Community Empowerment Act places a duty on all public bodies to:

• focus on where partners' collective efforts and resources can add the most value to their local communities, with particular emphasis on reducing inequality
• produce a Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP) to describe their priorities and planned improvements for the whole council area
• produce Locality Plans which cover smaller areas within the CPP area, usually focusing on areas that will benefit most from improvement