Community Plan 2013 - 2018
Single Outcome Agreement
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Foreword.............................................................................................4
North Lanarkshire Partnership............................................................6
Purpose of our Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement)........... 8
Vision, values and principles.............................................................. 10
National context................................................................................ 12
Key achievements.................................................................................. 14
Key themes, strategic priorities and local outcomes.......................... 16
• Health and wellbeing
• Lifelong learning
• Regeneration
• Community safety
• Developing the Partnership
Cross-cutting themes.........................................................................32
• Children and young people
• Adult protection
• Welfare reform
Implementation and monitoring.......................................................36
Summary of the key community plan themes and local outcomes....38
Summary of the local outcomes and national outcomes...................40
North Lanarkshire Partnership Community Plan 2013 to 2018
Foreword
In North Lanarkshire, there is a strong history of organisations working together to service the
needs of our residents. North Lanarkshire Partnership is responsible for the development and
implementation of the Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement). Community Planning is the
vehicle by which we as partners will work together with our communities to plan and develop
services to meet local needs and bring about improvements to the area.
As partner organisations we have a responsibility
to ensure that the priorities and actions detailed
in the Community Plan (Single Outcome
Agreement) are reflected within the plans and
strategies of our own organisation. As partners
we have signed a Partnership Agreement which
demonstrates our commitment to develop
effective community planning and illustrates
how we as organisations will work, together with
communities, to improve the quality of life of all
residents in North Lanarkshire.
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The resources available to our partnership and
how we use them are key considerations, which
will influence our success over the next five years.
What is abundantly clear from this situation is
that all parts of the public sector will need to
significantly reduce spending plans to align
these with real term reductions in public sector
spending. Given the economic recession, the
reduced resources available for the foreseeable
future and the ever increasing demand for
services it is imperative that our partnership continues to build on the
substantial progress made to date.
It is important to recognise also that through the ongoing process of public
sector reform, welfare reform, the development of shared services and other
new ways of delivering services, all of us as organisations will require to
change and manage our resources in a different way.
This plan, endorsed by us as members of the North Lanarkshire Partnership,
commits our organisations to the achievement of identified shared outcomes
and targets. The new Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement) builds
on our achievements to date and demonstrates how we will continue to
bring about improvements in our local communities and impact on the
issues that affect them in the period 2013 to 2018.
Cllr Jim McCabe, J.P.
Chair of North Lanarkshire
Partnership
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North Lanarkshire Partnership
North Lanarkshire Partnership (NLP) brings together the major public and voluntary sector agencies
in the area and has a responsibility for taking forward the development and implementation of the
Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement) in North Lanarkshire.
North Lanarkshire Partnership is structured in a
way that provides direction, makes decisions and
considers thematic strategies and cross-cutting
issues that affect the partnership as a whole.
The partnership is led by a Board made up of
senior representatives from the public agencies
and representatives of the voluntary sector. Our
Partnership Agreement clearly defines the role of
the Board to:
• act as a forum through which strategic
economic, social and environmental issues
affecting the area will be addressed in an
integrated way and, in particular, to develop
North Lanarkshire’s community planning
process;
• co-ordinate the activity of partner agencies
in the pursuance of agreed joint strategic
objectives;
• approve joint action plans which identify
agreed priorities, and which set out the more
detailed implementation arrangements for
partnership activity;
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• agree targets against which progress can be
monitored;
• provide a mechanism for debating issues of
concern, and
• provide a strategic link with pan-Lanarkshire
and national organisations and networks at a
North Lanarkshire level.
The community planning partners who make up
the membership of North Lanarkshire Partnership
Board are:
• Consortium of Further Education Colleges
• Jobcentre Plus
• NHS Lanarkshire
• North Lanarkshire Council
• Police Scotland
• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
• Scottish Enterprise
• Skills Development Scotland
• Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
• The Voluntary Sector.
There are however a large number of additional
partner organisations involved throughout
the rest of the community planning structure
including amongst others:
• Central Scotland Forest Trust
• Central Scotland Green Network
• Clyde Valley Green Network
• Forestry Commission
• HMP Addiewell
• Health and Care Partnership
• Lanarkshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership
• Lanarkshire Justice Authority Community
• North Lanarkshire Leisure Ltd
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Town Centre Activities Ltd
The diagram overleaf outlines the community
planning structure which supports NLP Board at
a strategic and locality level:
Diagram 1 – North Lanarkshire Community Planning Structure
North Lanarkshire Partnership Board
Chief
Officers
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North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee
North Lanarkshire Children’s
Services Partnership
Public
Protection
Voluntary
Sector
Partnership
Group
Regeneration
Partnership
Group
North Lanarkshire Adult
Protection Committee
Developing the Partnership Group
North Lanarkshire Welfare Reform
Working Group
Lifelong
Learning
Partnership
Group
Health &
Wellbeing
Partnership
Group
Community
Safety
Partnership
Local Area Partnerships
Community Forums
Our Communities
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Purpose of our Community Plan
(Single Outcome Agreement)
The purpose of this Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement), is to provide a clear long term
vision to be achieved over the next decade together with the outcomes, indicators and targets by
which progress will be measured over the short and medium term. It forms an explicit ‘plan for
place’ which is endorsed by all of us as partners and agreed with the Scottish Government.
This plan sets out our partnerships’ vision for North
Lanarkshire by 2022 and outlines how as partners
we will work together over the next five years to
ensure positive progress in achieving this vision. To
aid us in achieving this vision, we have identified
our strategic priorities together with the outcomes
we wish to achieve locally linking these to the
national outcomes of the Scottish Government. As
this Community Plan is also our Single Outcome
Agreement, the Supporting Document to this
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Community Plan also identifies the local outcomes,
indicators and targets which we will use to track
progress in achieving our strategic priorities. Whilst
the key themes, local outcomes and strategic
priorities contained within this document will
remain constant, the indicators and targets in the
Supporting Document will be refreshed annually in
line with our performance framework.
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Vision, values and principles
Vision
Our Vision is that North Lanarkshire in 2022 will be a place where people:
• want to live because of the range, quality and affordability of the housing available, the safety
of our communities, the quality and accessibility of the natural environment, and the quality of
amenities and services in the area;
• live well because the focus within the plan is on improving health and reducing inequalities
ensures their health, wellbeing, and life chances are as good as those elsewhere in Scotland;
• choose to do business because support for new and existing businesses, business sites, the
transport network and good transport connections and the quality of workforce are second to
none in Scotland;
• participate in learning at all ages and of life to achieve their full potential;
• have a fair chance in life and where factors that currently exist to limit people’s opportunities and
prospects are overcome, and
• particularly our children and young people are safe, nurtured, healthy, achieving, active,
respected, responsible and included.
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Local communities have the right to expect
consistent commitment from all agencies in North
Lanarkshire to bring about improvements to the
area. Through existing plans and strategies we
as partners have already set out the detail of the
specific services we will provide.
The Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement)
therefore does not seek to address everything but
it does:
• provide an agreed agenda for the North
Lanarkshire Partnership;
• enable partners to maximise existing and new
resources and budgets to plan and deliver key
services;
• provide a framework for effective partnership
and joint working across the statutory public
and voluntary sectors;
• allow partners the opportunity to work
towards common aims to ensure positive
outcomes;
• provide a framework for simplifying the many
existing partnership and planning processes;
• seek to influence and inform the development,
implementation and review of all other plans
and strategies, and
• provide opportunities for partners to engage
and involve communities in decisions that
affect them.
Values and principles
In developing and delivering this plan, our
partnership will be guided by the same values and
principles outlined in our previous Community
Plan:
Working with Communities: We as partners are
committed to developing community planning in
a way that reflects the concerns and aspirations
of the communities we serve and we will provide
opportunities for individuals and communities to
participate in the process.
Respecting Difference: All people will have an
equal right to advice, support, access to services
and be involved in decisions affecting their lives,
irrespective of their age, disability, ethnicity, gender,
religion, sexuality, economic circumstances and
state of health. Our partnership will ensure it
actively monitors equal opportunities, adheres to its
statutory duties and reports on its performance.
Best Value: Our partnership will use all the
resources managed on behalf of the communities
of North Lanarkshire both efficiently and effectively
by working together to continuously improve our
services.
Rights and Responsibilities: Our partnership
will fully respect the rights of individuals and
communities in developing and implementing
community planning. In return, support will be
provided to individuals and communities who
will be expected to take responsibility for their
own behaviour and lifestyles to help contribute to
achieving the overall vision.
Many different organisations across North
Lanarkshire provide services and it is recognised
that addressing the wide range of issues affecting
people’s lives requires a joined up approach across
all our key agencies.
Transparency: The performance of our partnership
will be honestly reported back to the public
providing not only opportunities but support
for individuals and communities to question and
challenge its decision and performance.
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National context
Strategic objectives and national outcomes
The Scottish Government has identified five overarching strategic objectives to focus government
and public services on creating a more successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to
flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth.
These objectives are:
• Wealthier & Fairer - Enable businesses and
people to increase their wealth and more
people to share fairly in that wealth;
• Smarter - Expand opportunities for Scots
to succeed from nurture through to lifelong
learning, ensuring higher and more widely
shared achievements;
• Healthier - Help people to sustain and improve
their health, especially in disadvantaged
communities, ensuring better, local and faster
access to health care;
• Safer & Stronger - Help local communities to
flourish, becoming stronger, safer places to live,
offering improved opportunities and a better
quality of life, and
• Greener - Improve Scotland’s natural and
built environment and the sustainable use and
enjoyment of it.
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These objectives are then underpinned by 16
national outcomes.
The priorities and local outcomes identified in
the Community Plan Single Outcome Agreement
(SOA) link to these strategic objectives, and the link
between these national outcomes and our local
outcomes credited on the table on page 38 of this
document.
National key priorities
During the last year, the Scottish Government and
COSLA have undertaken a review of community
planning and Single Outcome Agreements
resulting in the production of a Statement of
Ambition and associated guidance on Single
Outcome Agreements. As a result of this process,
a number of key priority areas have been identified
where the aim is to deliver ‘transformational
performance improvement’ through the
community planning process.
These priorities have been identified because:
• they can make a major contribution to
achieving the National Outcomes;
• significant scope exists to reduce inequalities;
• there is a need for a concerted and sustained
effort to improve performance;
• these priorities are mutually reinforcing;
• to achieve the transformational change
envisaged partnership working, community
engagement and co-production are seen as
critical, and
• significant gains can potentially be delivered
over the medium to long term through a
preventative and early intervention approach.
In North Lanarkshire, all of these areas were already
identified as priorities by the themed partnership
groups before the Single Outcome Agreement
guidance was issued and the links between these
national priorities and our existing Community
Plan themes are identified below. Detailed information on
the ongoing work in support of these is contained within the
Supporting Document which will be updated annually and
reported on as part of our reporting framework. This ensures
that the work on these key priorities is fully integrated into the
community planning process.
Key priorities together with themes they link to in our
Community Plan are identified below:
Key priority
Community Plan (SOA) theme
Health inequalities and physical activity
Health and wellbeing
Outcomes for older people
Health and wellbeing
Economic recovery and growth
Regeneration
Employment
Regeneration
Safer and stronger communities, and reducing offending
Community safety
Early years
Children and young people
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Key achievements
This section highlights some of the notable achievements over the lifetime of our previous plan.
During that period, we:
Health and wellbeing
• Developed and delivered Well Connected,
Lanarkshire’s social prescribing programme for
people who may be experiencing symptoms
of stress or low mood, but also for people who
would like to feel better in themselves and
their life. The programmes have shown to help
people by improving self confidence and self
esteem, reducing low mood and feelings of
stress, helping people deal with the problems
that are causing low wellbeing, helping people
develop positive ways of coping with the
challenges of life, increasing opportunities for
social contact and learning new and useful
skills.
• Implemented a population based screening
programme to identify and help the number
of people who are drinking more than
recommended levels and delivered 9,881
alcohol brief interventions (ABIs) within primary
care, acute, midwifery services and mental and
sexual health services, significantly exceeding
our target.
• Targeted our efforts and resources towards the
most disadvantaged groups and communities
where smoking prevalence is greatest and the
target for the number of people, within the
40% most deprived datazones, quitting was
exceeded in 2011-12, with 1,626 successful
quits at the 4-week stage.
• Invested over £178million in improving our
housing stock, including the replacement of
kitchens and bathrooms, and the installation of
new heating systems.
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• Rolled out reablement to maximise people’s
independence and have developed self
directed support for adults with 119 people
accessing an individual budget allowing them
choice and control over their lives.
• Expanded the council’s new build
programme from 500 to 1,000 units by
2020 and completed 117 homes and
have site starts on another 207.
Lifelong learning
• Supported over 5,000 people with
training, advice and support through
North Lanarkshire’s Working including
937 lone parents, 588 people who have
a criminal record and 669 residents who
had been out of work for more than
three years.
• Improved educational attainment levels
including the 2012 SQA examination
awards with the percentage of S4 pupils
gaining five or more awards at the most
demanding level (Credit or Intermediate
2) rising 49.2% against a target of 47%.
• Continued to exceed our target for
achieving our attainment outcomes
for Looked After and Accommodated
Children with 98.4% attaining 1 or more
Standard Grade at Level 3
• Completed 34 new schools as part of the
£150 million Education 2010 Project and
the £195 million Schools and Centres 21
programme
Regeneration
• Delivered the Lanarkshire Business
Gateway contract, along with a wide
range of business support activities
to 631 new start businesses and 735
existing businesses.
• Developed BioCity Scotland, with
support from the Scottish Government,
Scottish Enterprise and Roslin BioCentre.
• Progressed regeneration at Ravenscraig
with the development of Motherwell
College, Ravenscraig Regional Sports
Centre, BRE Innovation Park and new
house building on the site.
• Increased our recycling rates since 2008
from 38.9% to 43% and, we are on track
to meet European and national targets
Community safety
• Reduced anti-social behaviour with year
on year reported incidents reducing
from 53,609 in 2009/10 to 50,574 in
2011/12 and incidents of street drinking
falling by 36%.
• Reduced the level of violent group
one crime (which includes murder,
attempted murder, robbery, serious
assault, assault with intent to rob, and
abduction) year on year from 683 in
2009/10 to 487 in 2011/12.
• Reduced the number of domestic
crimes, including physical and non
physical crime, year on year from 3,613
in 2009/10 to 3,146 in 2011/12 and the
number of recorded common assaults
also reduced by 12% during 2011/12
from 3,765 to 3,308.
• Reached provisional agreement with
the Scottish Government on the £73
million Tax Incremental Funding (TIF)
proposal, which will be the subject to a
future submission of a business case and
financial model, for the next phase of
regeneration at Ravenscraig.
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•Health and wellbeing
•Lifelong learning
•Regeneration
•Community safety
•Developing the partnership
Our key themes are broadly aligned with those of
the new Scottish Government’s strategic objectives.
This Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement)
aligns the partnership’s local outcomes with the 16
national outcomes. This section outlines our key
themes, strategic priorities and local outcomes and
demonstrates the connections between these and the
national outcomes.
Summarised here are our key themes and strategic
priorities and this is followed by a separate section on
each individual theme.
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Our key themes
Health and wellbeing
Our strategic priorities which support this theme are:
• Effective housing support
• Improved health
• Effective community care
This theme is supported by the Health and
Wellbeing Partnership Group, led by the
council’s Housing and Social Work Services, with
representation from other services within the
council, North Lanarkshire Leisure Trust, Lanarkshire
Alcohol and Drug Partnership and NHS Lanarkshire.
It includes health, social care and housing services
and links to the Scottish Government’s Healthier
objective.
Life expectancy continues to rise in North
Lanarkshire. In the 10 years between 1998-2000
and 2008-2010, average life expectancy increased
from 71.8 to 74.3 years for males and from 77.4 to
78.8 years for females. However, life expectancy
is still below national levels. Health inequalities
continue to exist and remain prevalent amongst our
most deprived communities. Over the course of this
plan, we will continue to work with our partners
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to tackle the health inequalities within North
Lanarkshire, focusing on issues related to alcohol
and drug misuse, smoking, mental health, diet and
nutrition and physical activity.
A key aim of the partnership is to build on
major sporting events such as the London 2012
Olympic and Paralympics’ Games, the Glasgow
Commonwealth Games 2014 and the Ryder Cup
2014. We will aim to release the huge legacy
potential by improving the opportunities for
participation in sport and physical activity across
all of our residents in North Lanarkshire, and,
most importantly, amongst our young people. We
will develop approaches to support the delivery
of community sports initiatives and physical
education to capitalise on the health improvement
legacy effect of these major sporting events.
Improving mental health remains a key challenge
and priority, and we will continue to focus our
efforts on promoting recovery and reducing
stigma. Central to our approach to supporting
individuals with mental health problems is looking
beyond purely clinical outcomes to see the whole
person and their social and personal outcomes as
equally valid.
In tackling alcohol and drugs misuse, we will
continue to work towards a reduction in the level of
harm associated with alcohol/drug misuse, further
develop treatment and support for individuals with
alcohol and drug related problems, focusing on
early intervention and recovery focused outcomes
and safeguarding the interests of children, young
people and families affected by substance misuse.
The projected increases in the proportion of older
people living longer will present the council with
several challenges in terms of service demand and
expectation. Responding to these challenges, we
will seek to improve the availability and accessibility
of a range of community supports which enable
older people to live fulfilled lives as active citizens
within inclusive, caring communities. This will
prevent, delay or reduce their reliance upon
health and social work services. We will work in
partnership with older people and their carers
proactively to deliver more flexible and responsive
services, including preventative support,
community based rehabilitation, and reablement.
All supports will avoid unplanned, unwanted or
inappropriate admissions to hospital and reduce
stays in acute hospitals. Where older people have
complex needs which require intensive support, we
will work in partnership with them and their carers
to promote service responses which are tailored to
individual needs.
We believe it is important to ensure that housing
options are available to all. For some, services
will be focused on maintaining their current
accommodation and supporting independence,
whereas for others there are issues over access to
new, more appropriate homes to meet their needs.
Our approach aims to address a complex range of
issues while at the same time delivering individual
solutions for people in their communities. The
projected increase in the older population and
single person households will influence the type
and range of housing and associated support
required. We are therefore committed to making
housing more accessible for older people and those
with disabilities to allow them to continue to live in
their own home. We will also continue to provide
a high quality housing options and support service
in order to reduce homelessness across North
Lanarkshire.
Local outcomes – Health and wellbeing
Over the next five years we will achieve the following local outcomes:
• Older people and people with disabilities are able to live as safely and independently as possible in the community and have control over their care and
support
• Reduce homelessness through the provision of a high quality housing options and support service
• Reduce impact of smoking
• Reduce impact of alcohol and substance use
• Improve mental health and wellbeing
• Increase the number of people making healthier choices for diet and nutrition and achieving a healthy weight
• Increase the number of people enjoying a physically active life
• Improve sexual health outcomes for young people
• Older people and those with particular housing needs can live independently through the provision of accessible homes and support services
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Our key themes
Lifelong learning
Our strategic priorities which support this theme are:
• Better prospects
• Better achievements
• Greater opportunities
• Stronger communities
This theme is supported by the Lifelong Learning
Partnership Group, led by the council’s Learning
and Leisure Services, with representation from
council services, colleges, careers services, business
support services, employment services, the
voluntary sector and NHS Lanarkshire. It includes
nursery and school education, childcare provision,
community learning and development, library and
information services and further education. This
theme links to the Scottish Government’s Smarter
objective.
We believe that everyone has an unlimited ability
to learn and it is our aim therefore to remove any
barriers which get in the way of achievement and
higher aspirations. We are committed to making
North Lanarkshire a place where people are able to
learn and work, realise their full potential and take
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up the opportunity to make a contribution to their
community. The drive for improvement continues
as we build on the achievements we have already
made through our effective collaborative approach
and partnership working.
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we will develop all our children and young people
to be confident individuals, effective contributors,
responsible citizens and successful learners.
We are committed to providing an educational
environment that is relevant to children and young
people and provides them with the resources
and experiences they need through their nursery,
primary and secondary school years, and allows
them to develop skills for learning, life and work.
We will continue our improvements and raise our
attainment levels in academic, vocational and wider
achievements with a view to closing the gap with
the national average in national qualifications,
as well as improving the life chances of our most
vulnerable young people and their families. We
will underpin this by building on the successes of
our Schools and Centres 21 capital programme to
improve the learning facilities for nurseries, schools
and local communities. Through community based
Learning Centres and in partnership with colleges
we will encourage more people than ever to attain
formal and informal qualifications in state of the art
learning facilities.
In the face of a continuing economic downturn
we will continue to deliver new approaches to
training, learning and development. Working with
colleges, Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire, the
Community Learning and Development (CLD)
Partnership and others, we will support community
organisations to build up their resilience and
develop stronger communities; and support
individuals to develop relevant, transferable skills
to enhance their own prospects. We will work
together to provide greater opportunities and
clear pathways to further learning, sustainable
employment and community participation by
providing targeted support based on individual
needs.
Through Opportunities for All we will continue
to develop our tailored support to young people
up until their 20th birthday who are in danger
of entering the adult world without a positive
destination, by engaging them across six local
Learning Hubs through Activity Agreements,
assisting them to make a positive transition to
post-school education, training, employment or
volunteering.
to learn informally and choose
from a range of exciting and motivating alternative
learning programmes and awards, we hope to
encourage more people to enjoy
learning and to be active in their communities, for
example through volunteering, social enterprise or
membership of community organisations.
We will strive to provide courses at school, college
and through CLD which support the skills needs of
local employers as well as the academic aspirations
of learners. Through work experience and online
learning, we will provide learners with greater
access to developing the right skills, capabilities and
attributes for work. By giving all ages opportunities
Local outcomes – Lifelong learning
Over the next five years we will achieve the following local outcomes:
• Ensure more people are in education, training and volunteering, and engage more adults in a variety of personal learning and development experiences
• Improve the qualifications of learners to ensure they are more work-ready, and enable effective employer engagement to drive curricular provision
• Increase the opportunities for people to develop skills for learning, life and work, and improve their life chance
• Strengthen communities to provide and manage services to meet community needs and improve the capacity of community-based organisations to
become sustainable
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Our key themes
Regeneration
Our strategic priorities are:
• Reduced unemployment and worklessness
• Improved business growth and infrastructure
• Better town centres and communities
• Sustainable North Lanarkshire
This theme is supported by the Regeneration
Partnership Group and its four associated
sub-groups: Physical regeneration, Economic
regeneration, Sustainability and climate change
and Natural environment and active transport.
There are a wide range of partners involved in these
groups including council services, colleges, Skills
Development Scotland, NHS Lanarkshire, Scottish
Natural Heritage, Central Scotland Forest Trust,
Central Scotland Green Network and the Forestry
Commission. This theme links to the Scottish
Government’s Wealthier and Fairer and Greener
objectives.
The wider national and international economic
conditions continue to pose significant challenges
to the local area, not least in terms of tackling our
regeneration priorities. Unemployment continues
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to be a major issue. In 2008, claimant count
unemployment stood at a little under 5,000;
today it is over 12,000. One particular casualty
of the recession has been the increase in youth
unemployment: 12.2% of our young people are
now unemployed. Preparing our young people
for the workplace is a priority. Through its Youth
Investment Programme the North Lanarkshire’s
Working Employability Service will prioritise
creating job opportunities, work placements
and work experience positions for unemployed
residents, with a target of 1,667 workless
residents into jobs each year until 2015. There
will be a further review at this point to identify the
appropriate targets until 2018.
A vibrant and growing business sector is crucial to
the future of the North Lanarkshire economy. The
increase in new business development over the last
ten years has been a major driver in the growth of
the local economy. The Business Gateway service
and the council’s business support programmes
will support local business to start up, develop and
grow.
Attracting new investment to the area will also help
create jobs and prosperity. We must ensure that
we have the appropriate infrastructure to attract
businesses and individuals to invest, work, visit and
live in North Lanarkshire. Reducing the amount of
vacant property and vacant and derelict land will
increase the amount of space ready for business
development and be a catalyst for private sector
investment in the area.
North Lanarkshire benefits from its strategic
geographic location and our local transport
infrastructure is a critical factor in connecting
our communities, residents and businesses with
economic opportunities within and out with the
area. We will work with Strathclyde Partnership
for Transport and other partners to improve the
accessibility, availability and safety of our transport
network. We will further invest in maintaining
and improving the road and footway network
that links our town centres, urban areas and the
countryside thereby ensuring that it remains safe,
fit for purpose, meets the needs of all users and
encourages economic growth. We will encourage
safe travel on foot and by bicycle and further
support our drive to increase physical activity levels
by making sure our footpaths and cycle paths are
accessible to all.
We will continue to progress the regeneration of
Ravenscraig and the development of the new town
centre. Transport links critical to the project will be
taken forward by the council as a priority to allow
the next stage of development on the site to take
place.
North Lanarkshire has a wide range of tourist
attractions and activities to entice both residents
and visitors. The partnership will support initiatives
to increase the number of visitor and will actively
support the 2014 Commonwealth Games and seek
to maximise the opportunities that this event can
bring.
Over the last decade the image of North
Lanarkshire has improved and the benefits of
our natural environment are now being realised.
We are committed to improving and sustaining
our natural and built environment, ensuring it is
protected, cared for and looked after.
The seven town centres in North Lanarkshire
play an important part in the economic and
social well being of the area. Each is the focus
of many activities including shopping and retail,
entertainment and business services. Through our
Town Centre Capital Programme we will invest in
projects that will provide sustainable solutions to
developing and regenerating our town centres.
The partnership will support communities to
address the issues that affect them. Providing good
quality affordable housing, improving the physical
infrastructure and making communities and
places more attractive will help build sustainable
communities and improve people’s quality of life.
The council’s Building for the Future Programme
will invest £150 million in delivering 1,000
homes by 2020, which will help meet a range of
housing needs and have a positive impact on our
communities.
We will protect, enhance and create habitats and
ecological resources throughout North Lanarkshire,
and promote these ecological resources within
new developments. We will continue to protect
our lochs, rivers, woodlands and peatlands and
will ensure that their visual and recreational value is
maintained. Our public parks and open spaces will
be safe, well-cared for and accessible.
We will maintain traffic-free footpaths and routes,
cycle paths, green spaces and key recreational sites.
As long signatories of Scotland’s Climate Change
Declaration we are committed to climate change
mitigation, climate change adaptation and acting
sustainably. This will continue to be delivered
through our Sustainable Development Delivery
Framework and internal and external partnering.
We will increase and promote recycling activities in
line with Scottish and European targets, particularly
with regards to glass and food collections. We are
leading a shared services initiative for residual waste
treatment and disposal, planned to be operational
in 2019. This initiative will ensure that we adhere
to the landfill bans that will be effective by 2020.
We will continue to investigate contaminated land
within North Lanarkshire on a prioritised basis.
Through our Contaminated Land Strategy, we
will take steps to ensure that any land deemed
contaminated is remediated and prevents any
pollution to the environment.
Through implementation of our national, regional
and local transport strategies we will seek to reduce
congestion and improve our air quality. Through
increasing the numbers of air quality monitors, as
funding becomes available, we will identify areas of
poorer air quality and take any necessary action.
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Local outcomes - Regeneration
Over the next five years we will achieve the following local outcomes:
• Reduce unemployment and worklessness in North Lanarkshire, particularly among our 16-24 population
• Grow the business sector with high levels of survival and entrepreneurship and an infrastructure that attracts investment
• Create strong, sustainable town centres and communities that are attractive places to live, in work in, and visit
• Housing need is resolved as quickly as possible and people can meet their housing aspirations
• Improve the quality and energy efficiency of homes which contributes to meeting the climate change target
• Increase satisfaction with public transport
• Improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions
• Enhanced network of greenspace and woodland for local communities and wildlife
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Our key themes
Community safety
Our strategic priorities are:
• Reduced crime
• Improved fire safety
• Better neighbourhood management
• Improved road safety
T
he Community Safety Partnership aims
to improve the quality of life for North
Lanarkshire’s citizens and strives to ensure they
are safe from crime, disorder, and danger, and
that risk from injury and harm are minimised.
The partnership includes representation from
council services, Police Service Scotland,
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and
Lanarkshire Community Justice Authority.
Over the next five years we will enhance
our partnership arrangements to ensure we
continue to deliver positive outcomes for our
citizens and communities. We will continue to
be proactive and tackle local community safety
issues through the use of early intervention,
prevention, education, and reassurance tactics.
We will share information with partners to
identity priority hot spot areas and allocate
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resources accordingly, and ensure effective
engagement with communities. Our priorities
for the next five years are to reduce crime, improve
fire safety, achieve effective neighbourhood
management, and improve road safety.
Crime statistics show a reducing trend over the past
few years, with the level of violent crime decreasing
by 15%. Similarly the number of recorded common
assaults has decreased by 12%, the number of
domestic crimes has decreased by 12%, and
reported incidents of anti-social behaviour have
decreased by 10%. Latest citizen’s panel survey
results show that fear of crime is reducing, 45%
of respondents rate their fear of crime as low or
they have no fear at all. To build on these positive
outcomes community safety partners will continue
to work together to tackle all forms of violent crime
and anti-social behaviour to keep people safe
within North Lanarkshire.
Serious organised crime groups can use violence,
extortion, corruption, and fraud to bring themselves
profit and power, without any thought for individuals
or communities. This undermines legitimate
businesses, and impacts on the economy and the
environment. The national CashBack for Communities
programme reinvests the ill-gotten gains of crime into
community activities and since the programme was
introduced in 2007 over £0.5 million funding has been
reinvested into North Lanarkshire’s communities. To
maximise funding community safety partners will work
together to strengthen processes to divert, disrupt,
deter, and detect organised crime activities and ensure
North Lanarkshire’s businesses and communities are
protected.
North Lanarkshire’s criminal justice social work
services play a key role in supporting the victims of
crime, reducing re-offending, and increasing social
inclusion of former offenders into the community.
To enhance this service new interventions will be
developed to prevent and reduce offending, and
ensure support packages have a positive impact
and reduce instances of re-offending.
North Lanarkshire’s communities have been
enhanced through many environmental projects
undertaken as a result of community payback
orders where offenders carry out unpaid work in
their communities. This also has a positive impact
on aspects of community life, including removing
areas known for drink and drug abuse, alleviating
problems with youths gathering, reducing the
fear of crime, and promoting community spirit
and involvement. Community safety partners
will continue to maximise opportunities for
environmental improvements and develop the
community pay back strategy to reduce and
prevent repeat and/or more serious offences.
We will continue to address the problem of
environmental crime (e.g. dog fouling, fly tipping,
and littering) and the detrimental impact this has
on local communities to provide safe and attractive
surroundings for North Lanarkshire’s citizens.
Fire safety remains a priority to ensure the
occurrence of accidental house fires and related
casualties is reduced. Community safety partners
will continue to work together to ensure that
educational programmes, addressing fire safety
and fire related anti-social behaviour issues, are
delivered to North Lanarkshire’s schools and
communities. Home fire safety visits and early
referrals to the fire service where potential risks
are identified, will ensure people most at risk are
protected. Close partnership working will also
ensure the safety and security of those living in
high rise flats through regular maintenance and
inspection programmes and CCTV monitoring.
will continue to work together to ensure processes
are effective, tenancies are sustainable, and that
our communities are protected from anti-social
behaviour.
Road casualty figures for North Lanarkshire
have been falling steadily over the past decade.
Community safety partners will continue to work
together to ensure that educational programmes
such as Cut it Out, which addresses road safety and
young drivers, are delivered to secondary school
pupils. We will undertake public awareness raising,
and target engineering measures at accident sites.
To ensure that food retail outlets across North
Lanarkshire can be used with confidence, we will
continue with our inspection regime and work with
food business proprietors to ensure appropriate
hygiene and management standards are achieved.
Public consultation for the Local Housing Strategy
2011/16 identified anti-social behaviour as a
priority for action. Anti-social investigation teams
have been established in each of the six localities
and a number of processes implemented to help
address this issue. Community safety partners
Local outcomes – Community safety
Over the next five years we will achieve the following outcomes:
• Reduce disorder, anti-social behaviour, violence, and abuse within our communities
• Increase public confidence in relation to community safety and wellbeing
• Reduce the harm caused to our communities by organised crime groups
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Our key themes
Developing the partnership
Our strategic priorities will be:
• Effective partnership structures
• Effective thematic groups and co-ordinated resource management
• Robust evidence base
• Clearer outcome focus
• Effective performance management
T
he Developing the Partnership Group
includes representation from all of the
strategic partners and provides support to the
North Lanarkshire Partnership Board and the
Community Plan (Single outcome Agreement)
will form a key element in the delivery of public
service reform in line with the outcomes for
the review of Community Planning and the
Statement of Ambition.
The partnership is facing unprecedented pressures
both from an organisational prespective with
the ongoing transformation programme for key
partners including police and fire and rescue
services and from a financial perspective with
reducing revenue resources, the impact of welfare
reforms and increasing service demands.
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Effective community planning arrangements
provide the foundation for effective partnership
working within wider reform. To achieve this North
Lanarkshire Partnership Board requires strong
governance and accountability processes which
hold all partners to account for their contribution to
delivery of this Community Plan (Single Outcome
Agreement). These community planning structures
need to:
• reflect local circumstances;
• understand local needs and opportunities
supported by relevant and reliable data;
• monitor effectively over time, and
• demonstrate continuous improvement.
The Improvement Service (IS), in partnership
with Scottish Government, delivered a project
to support capacity building in Community
Planning Partnerships through the roll out of a self
assessment framework using a partnership survey
and the Public Service Improvement Framework
(PSIF). This self evaluation journey consisted of an
Awareness Session, the completion of an outcomes
focused partnership checklist by partnership
organisation and a consensus workshop. An
Improvement Action Plan was developed which
included the priorities, outcomes and milestones
and this will be driven forward through NLP Board
and the Developing the Partnership group.
During 2012, the North Lanarkshire Partnership
Board completed a self evaluation exercise.
The priorities identified focused on strengthening
the governance, accountability and operating
arrangements of the partnership to ensure a
systematic and encompassing approach to
performance management and improvement and
through this decisive change and increased impact.
Local outcomes – Developing the partnership
Over the next five years we will achieve the following outcomes:
• Develop clear accountability processes
• Improve effectiveness of engagement
• Improve shared approaches to service delivery, shared resources and best practice
• Improve how evidence is used to inform decision making
• Strengthen processes to support partnership
• Improve monitoring and measurement processes to ensure they are meaningful
• Improve the scrutiny role of the board
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Cross-cutting themes
As a partnership we have identified five key themes where the bulk of our activities will be focussed
but we are aware there are a number of key policy areas which cut across these themes and which will
need to be addressed if we are to achieve positive outcomes for our communities. These cross-cutting
themes together with their strategic priorities and local outcomes are detailed below and overleaf:
Children and young people
The North Lanarkshire Children’s Services
Partnership and Child Protection Committee
want children to be safe, healthy, achieving,
nurtured, active, respected, responsible
and included so that they can realise their
potential and grow to be successful learners,
confident individuals, effective contributors and
responsible citizens.
Partners support the view that, where possible,
children’s needs should be met by universal
services like education and health. However, we
understand that there is a small but significant
number of children who need additional
supports, as well as an even smaller number
who require access to specialist and intensive
services to meet their complex needs.
Our strategic priorities which support this
theme are:
In North Lanarkshire we have been working to
implement Getting It Right For Every Child. This
is a national approach to improve outcomes
for all children and young people, building
solutions with and around children, young
people and their families, enabling children to
get the help they need when they need it and
working together to make sure things get better.
To meet the needs of all our children and young
people, early intervention and prevention are
part of our planning and delivery of services.
• Improved outcomes for all children and
young people
• Solutions built with and around children,
young people and their families
• Children get the help they need when they
need it
• Everyone is working together to make sure
things get better
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Public and voluntary sectors work together
in partnership with families, to improve
outcomes for children, young people and
their families. Shared priorities and actions are
identified in the Improving Children’s Services
Plan, produced by the Children’s Services
Partnership and Child Protection Committee.
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Adult protection
Everyone has a right to be safe.
The aims of the Adult Protection legislation are
to identify, support and protect individuals who
fall into the category ‘adults at risk’. It is known
that the most effective way public bodies can
intervene to ensure the safety and wellbeing
of an adult at risk is to work collaboratively, to
share information and to jointly contribute to
plans which are put in place, seeking to support
and keep safe the adult.
Our strategic priorities which support this
theme are:
• Audit and scrutiny of adult protection
practice across the agencies
• Development of public awareness strategies
• Gathering the views of adults subject to
adult protection measures
• Strengthening connections between the
Committee and service providers
• Focusing on preventative strategies and
early intervention
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The main purpose of the Adult Protection
Committee is to promote and support interagency co-operation at all levels of adult
protection work.
We would also wish to maintain an overview
of the outcomes of the adult protection
interventions that take place for the adult,
learning from their experiences and contributing
to a greater shared understanding of adult
protection and what works well.
Welfare reform
The UK coalition Government has proposed
savings of £81 billion by 2014/15, it has outlined
their proposal to achieve some of these savings
from Welfare benefits, leading to estimated total
savings of £18 billion by 2014/15 and in the
budget 2012, the Government announced that
a further £10 billion will be required from 2015,
bringing the total savings expected from the
welfare bill to £28 billion. The impact for North
Lanarkshire Council and its residents is a loss of
up to £49 million from the local economy.
In response to the changes, North Lanarkshire
Council and its partners established a Working
Group to analyse (and where possible influence)
the proposals and develop coping strategies to
address the impact of the reforms. This group
has produced an action plan which incorporates
a communications strategy and is supported by
a multi-disciplinary training programme.
Our strategic priorities which support this
theme are:
• Effective information and advice services
• Effective management of benefit claims and
appeals
• Minimise impact on residents
• Develop a skilled workforce
• Ensure effective engagement
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Implementation and monitoring
To support the delivery of this Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement), a performance management
framework has been developed which enables partners to measure progress, monitor activity, identify underperformance and the actions required to remedy this. The diagram overleaf outlines this framework. The specific
targets and indicators associated with each theme are included with the individual theme action plans and also
within the Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement) Supporting Document which will be refreshed annually as
part of the reporting process and will be reviewed in 2015.
Strategic community planning
Themed partnership groups
The chairs of the Themed Partnership Groups are responsible for reporting to the North Lanarkshire Partnership
Board, six monthly, on the actions linked to the theme for which they are responsible, outlining progress during the
reporting period, under and over performance and any remedial actions required. Partners have a responsibility to
provide updated information to the council’s Corporate Service Improvement Team to inform this process and these
are then entered into the electronic performance management system - Perform NL. This process allows targets
and indicators to be reviewed and refreshed accordingly. In addition, an Annual Performance Report is published
highlighting the Partnership’s achievements and progress and detailing any changes to targets and actions. Chairs
of the groups which support the cross-cutting themes also provide regular updates to the Board on progress within
their theme.
Action plans
Our future actions have been determined by the themes and priorities set out in this plan. A Partnership Group
takes forward the work of each of the key themes and an annual action plan is in place for each. The action plans
detail a range of indicators, targets and milestones clearly linked to the identified priorities and local outcomes. The
Partnership Groups are responsible for the delivery of actions identified in their respective action plan. The diagram
overleaf outlines this monitoring process.
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Performance Management Framework
Community Plan (SOA)
Partnership Action Plans
Six monthly review
(Partnership Board)
Council Service Plans
Six monthly review
(Service Committee)
Local community planning
Our local community planning structure including our Local Area Partnerships and Local Area teams have a key role in driving forward the priorities and
impacting on the outcomes detailed in the Community Plan (Single Outcome Agreement).
During 2011/12 the Local Area Partnerships and Local Area Teams have focused on the continued delivery of the Tasking and Co-ordinating model to
tackle community safety issues through the Community Safety sub-groups (CSSG) operating in each of the six localities together with the development
and delivery of Local Area Team actions to take forward community planning at a locality level and this work will be expanded during the lifetime of this
plan as we further develop our ‘plans for place’.
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Summary of the key community plan themes and local outcomes
Detailed below are our local outcomes by key theme:
Health and wellbeing
Lifelong learning
Regeneration
Community safety
Developing the partnership
Older people and people with
disabilities are able to live as
safely and independently as
possible in the community, and
have control over their care and
support
Ensure more people are
in education, training and
volunteering, and engage more
adults in a variety of personal
learning and development
experiences
Reduce unemployment
and worklessness in North
Lanarkshire, particularly among
our 16-24 population
Reduce disorder, anti-social
behaviour, violence, and abuse
within our communities
Develop clear accountability
processes
Reduce homelessness through
the provision of a high quality
housing options and support
service
Improve the qualifications of
learners to ensure they are more
work-ready, and enable effective
employer engagement to drive
curricular provision
Grow the business sector
with high levels of survival
and entrepreneurship and an
infrastructure that attracts
investment
Reduce impact of smoking
Reduce impact of alcohol and
substance use
Improve mental health and
wellbeing
Create strong sustainable town
centres and communities that
are attractive places to live in,
work in and visit
Increase the opportunities for
people to develop skills for
learning, life and work, and
improve their life chance
Increase the number of people
making healthier choices for diet
and nutrition and achieving a
healthy weight
Increase the number of people
enjoying a physically active life
Improve sexual health outcomes
for young people
Older people and those with
particular housing needs can
live independtly through the
provision of accessible homes
and support services
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Strengthen communities to
provide and manage services
to meet community needs,
and improve the capacity of
community-based organisations
to become sustainable
Improve effectiveness of
engagement
Improve shared approaches
to service delivery, shared
resources and best practice
Increase public confidence in
relation to community safety
and wellbeing
Improve how evidence is used to
inform decision making
Housing need is resolved
as quickly as possible and
people can meet their housing
aspirations
Strengthen processes to support
partnership
Improve the quality and energy
efficiency of homes, which
contributes to meeting the
climate change target
Improve monitoring and
measurement processes to
ensure they are meaningful
Increase satisfaction with public
transport
Improve energy efficiency and
reduce CO2 emissions
Enhanced network of
greenspace and woodland for
local communities and wildlife
Reduce the harm caused to our
communities by organised crime
groups
Improve scrutiny role of the
board
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Summary of the local outcomes and national outcomes
Detailed below are the links between our identified local outcomes and the Scottish Government’s National Outcomes
Local outcomes - Themes
National Outcomes
Health and wellbeing
Older people and people with disabilities are able to live as safely and independently as possible in the community and have control over their care
and support
Reduce homelessness through the provision of a high quality housing options and support service
10, 15
7,8
Reduce impact of smoking
6
Reduce impact of alcohol and substance use
6
Improve mental health and wellbeing
6
Increase the number of people making healthier choices for diet and nutrition and achieving a healthy weight
6
Increase the number of people enjoying a physically active life
4, 6, 12
Improved sexual health outcomes for young people
6, 8
Older people and those with particular housing needs can live independently through the provision of accessible homes and support services
7,8
Lifelong learning
Ensure more people are in education, training and volunteering, and engage more adults in a variety of personal learning and development
experiences
2,3,4,7,8
Improve the qualifications of learners to ensure they are more work-ready, and enable effective employer engagement to drive curricular provision
1,2,3,4,5,7,8
Increase the opportunities for people to develop skills for learning, life and work, and improve their life chance
2,3,4,7,8,11
Strengthen communities to provide and manage services to meet community needs and improve the capacity of community-based organisations to
become sustainable
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Regeneration
Reduce unemployment and worklessness in North Lanarkshire, particularly among our 16-24 population
Grow the business sector with high levels of survival and entrepreneurship and an infrastructure that attracts investment
Create strong, sustainable town centres and communities that are attractive places to live in, work in, and visit
Housing need is resolved as quickly as possible and people can meet their housing aspirations
Improve the quality and energy efficiency of homes which contributes to meeting the climate change target
2
1, 2
1, 10, 11
10
10, 11, 14
Increase satisfaction with public transport
12, 14
Improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions
12, 14
Enhanced network of greenspace and woodland for local communities and wildlife
10, 12
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Local outcomes - Themes
National Outcomes
Community safety
Reduce disorder, anti-social behaviour, violence, and abuse within our communities
9
Increase public confidence in relation to community safety and wellbeing
9
Reduce the harm caused to our communities by organised crime groups
9
Developing the partnership
Develop clear accountability processes
16
Improve effectiveness of engagement
16
Improve shared approaches to service delivery, shared resources and best practice
16
Improve how evidence is used to inform decision making
16
Strengthen processes to support partnership
16
Improve monitoring and measurement processes to ensure they are meaningful
16
Improve the scrutiny role of the board
16
National outcome
1
We live in a Scotland that is the most attractive place for doing business in Europe
2
We realise our full economic potential with more and better employment opportunities for our people
3
We are better educated, more skilled and more successful, renowned for our research and innovation
4
Our young people are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens
5
Our children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed
6
We live longer, healthier lives
7
We have tackled significant inequalities in Scottish society
8
We have improved the life chances for children, young people and families at risk
9
We live our lives safe from crime, disorder and danger
10 We live in well-designed, sustainable places where we are able to access the amenities and services we need
11 We have strong, resilient and supportive communities where people take responsibility for their own actions and how they affect others
12 We value and enjoy our built and natural environment and protect and enhance it for future generations
13 We take pride in a strong, fair and inclusive national identity
14 We reduce the local and global environmental impact of our consumption and production
15 Our people are able to maintain their independence as they get older and are able to access appropriate support when they need it
16 Our public services are high quality, continually improving, efficient and responsive to local people’s needs
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