NLP Board Minute 6 February 2008 (1)

North Lanarkshire Partnership

Minute of the Board meeting

Held on Wednesday 6 February 2008

Present:	Cllr Jim McCabe,	NLC Chair
	Cllr Jim Smith	NLC
	Maureen McConachie	NLC
	Anne McGuire	Strathclyde Police
	Brian Dodd	Strathclyde Police
	Hugh Logan	Motherwell College
	Jim McGonigle	Jobcentre Plus
	June Vallance	NL Voluntary Sector
	Crawford Kirkwood	NL Voluntary Sector
	Roger Popplewell	Communities Scotland
	David Smith	Strathclyde Fire & Rescue
Attending:	Sandie Mackay	NLC
	Russell Ellerby	NLC
	Gerry MacMillan	NLC
	Gregor Mackenzie	NLC
	Colin Sloey	NHS Lanarkshire
	Stephen Kerr	NHS Lanarkshire
	John Walls	SPT
Apologies:	Gavin Whitefield	NLC
	Karen McNiven	NLC
	Liz Connolly	Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire
	Gordon Maclennan	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
	Tim Davison	NHS
	Ken Corsar	NHS

Welcome 

Councillor McCabe welcomed all to the meeting,

Item 1. Apologies

Apologies were noted as above.

Item 2. Minute of the previous meeting (12 December 2007)

Agreed as an accurate record.

Item 3. Matters arising

Infobase:  Approval was given at the previous Board meeting to make a financial contribution towards the development of the project of £67,500.   The offer has been sent to CVSNL and the funding will go out over the next financial year.

Item 4. Presentation: European Structural Funds CPP pilot

Maureen provided an overview on the priorities of the CPP bid over the next two years (2008-2010) with North Lanarkshire Council as lead partner for the application. The presentation is summarised as follows;

The CPP application covers two funding priorities – ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and ESF (European Social Fund).

The North Lanarkshire CPP bid is requesting £7,186,610 from the Urban Regeneration priority for ERDF and the Access to Lifelong Learning from ESF.

There are 13 eligible authorities who can apply for  this funding.  There are no set allocations for each area or for the sums of money that will be left for "challenge projects" outwith the CPP pilots.

Due to an oversubscription for Round 1 of ESF (£83m available with £94m requested) and as indicated at the previous Board meeting,  considerable negotiation and discussion will be required between the Scottish Government and ESEP to address the allocation across Scotland.

The bid contains 2 sections –

·        Integrated Employability Framework (which aims to reach those who are currently furthest from the labour market)

·        Supporting Infrastructure (continued support to partnership projects including: Motherwell & Wishaw Open Learning Centres; Glencryan Vocational Training Centre; and Wellwynd Social Enterprise Centre)

The NLP CPP bid is being presented to Scottish Government civil servants on February 11th. Advisory groups will consider the bid later this month, however, a decision will not be known until March 20th.  Maureen acknowledged confirmation of funding from Jobcentre Plus and NHS Lanarkshire.

The Chair thanked Maureen for this informative briefing on our CPP pilot bid

Item 5. Developing our Community Plan/ findings from consultation

The Board was updated on the findings of the recent consultation process on the draft Community Plan.

The draft Plan was considered by a number of sources including - Community Fora, youth groups, Citizens' Panel Focus Groups (a full report from which was included as Appendix 1 to this item), press advertorials as well as being published on the Council's website and circulated to Partner organisations. Young people across North Lanarkshire were also consulted on the document including – school pupils, college students, members of the Scottish Youth Parliament and members of Youth Buzz (North Lanarkshire's newly formed Youth Council). Just over 500 responses from young people have been received.

Sandie extended apologies to the Voluntary Sector whose comments were omitted from the consultation document. This will be rectified.  It was also suggested that reference to "Voluntary and Community Sector" should be amended to show "Voluntary Sector".

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