managing reconfiguration, delivering change alex linkston chief executive
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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