Question reference: S1W-00883
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 August 1999
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Current status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 23 August 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the targets set for each Social Inclusion Partnership in Scotland and the latest available information on their performance in relation to these targets.
Answer
A network of 47 Social Inclusion Partnerships is now in place, tackling the problems of exclusion in rural and urban areas across Scotland. Of these, 26 are new Social Inclusion Partnerships, which began their work on 1st April 1999. The new Social Inclusion Partnerships are currently developing their strategies. Their finalised targets will be set out in monitoring and evaluation plans, which each new Social Inclusion Partnership will develop later this year. New guidance is currently being developed to assist the Social Inclusion Partnerships in doing this.As well as the new partnerships, 21 of the existing Priority Partnership Areas and Regeneration Programmes were designated as Social Inclusion Partnerships on 1st April 1999 following a re-focusing of their work programmes. Each of these converted Social Inclusion Partnerships has a set of targets agreed with the Scottish Executive early in its life. Each partnership sets out details of its performance against these targets every year in its annual report. Annual reports for 1998/99 have now been submitted to the Scottish Executive, and I have placed copies of the annual reports in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.