The Fife Carers Strategy Group has developed the carers strategy, which aims to ensure that carers can get the support they need. The group has been in existence for a number of years and is made up of carers and representative staff from the Social Work Service, NHS Fife and the voluntary sector.

Contact name: Gordon Paterson, Service Manager

Address: Social Work Office
Castlehill
Cupar
KY15 4HA

Tel: 08451 555555  ext 45 03 19

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Role and remit

The group meet regularly to discuss/review the needs of carers and look at what actions are required to support carers and influence policies.

The group also monitor implementation of the carers strategy.

Current areas of activity

Review of Fife Carers Strategy 2004-2007

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Health and Social Care Plan 2007-2011 (draft)

Joint Health Improvement Plan 2007-2010

Framework for Older People

Carers Information Strategy

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.fifedirect.org.uk

The Fife Child Protection Committee is made up of representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies to develop policies and procedures to protect children. It is the primary strategic planning mechanism for inter-agency child protection work in Fife. The Committee works with Fife Council departments and other agencies within the county who also have a responsibility for the protection of children. The Committee has very close links with the Integrated Children's Service Plan and with Community Planning. The Committee has 2 sub groups, one with responsibility for Training and the other with a responsibility for Quality Assurance.

Contact name

Fife Child Protection

Committee Support Team

Address Aucterderran Centre

Woodend Road

Cardenden

KY5 0NE

Tel:08451 555555 ext 443101

Email Details

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Web address

Fife Child Protection

Role and remit

The team comprises of:-

Lead Officer - Ross Drummond

Quality Assurance and Development Officer - Josie Duffy, who has a responsibility for training

Quality Assurance and Development Officer - Melanie Durowse, who has a responsibility for Quality Assurance

Kath Collins - Administrator

Current areas of activity

To fulfill the objectives of the Fife Child Protection Committee Annual Plan

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Fife Child Protection Committee Annual Plan

Fife Child Protection Committee Communications Strategy 2007 - 2010

Fife Child Protection Committee Annual Report 2006 - 2007

Fife Child Protection Committee Child Protection Guidelines

Fife Child Protection Committee Training Strategy 2007 - 2010

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.fifechildprotection.org.uk

Fife's Children's Services Group is a multi-agency group which meets quarterly. The Group co-ordinates and oversees Fife's Integrated Children's Services Plan which is a key strategic document.

Contact name

Fiona Power

Children's Services Adviser

c/o Local Services Centre

Walmer Drive

Dunfermline

KY12 7JX

Tel: 01383 414322

Email Details

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Role and remit

• Ensure effective joint working arrangements are in place to achieve agreed outcomes, strategic priorities and policies for children's services, within the Fife Children's Services Plan.
• Develop the capacity and role of the existing service planning framework to ensure that strategic and local policies are jointly developed and delivered.
• Develop the foundation for joint commissioning of children's services.
• To redesign children's services at a local level to meet strategic priorities and policies through the local children's services groups.
• Ensure that a systematic approach to measuring performance in children's services is in place, which also serves as a basis for service planning and resource allocation.
• Promote social inclusion and equality of access to universal services, which offers a consistent, high quality standard to local communities across Fife, with better, more defined links to specialist services, which ensure effective and early interventions for vulnerable children and families.

The group is accountable through its members to the different agency structures, including the Fife Council Children's Services Committee, the NHS Fife Board and the Voluntary Sector Children's Services Forum etc. In working towards such a remit, the role of the Children's Services Group is to:

• Consider strategic policies from theme groups and services to ensure a fit with the strategic direction and secure integration and co-ordination of policies and service delivery to meet the needs of children and their parents ensure that there is Best Value in the delivery of children's services;
• Recommend joint measures of performance based on outputs and outcomes and a framework in which to monitor such performance;
• Recommend the key joint priorities and content of the Children's Services Plan and oversee the implementation of the Plan;
• Recommend the use of the key children's funding strands, including the Changing Children's Services Fund and Sure Start and link these to priorities in the Children's Services Plan;
• Monitor the strategic and local planning of children's services through the theme group framework and Local Children's Services Groups and troubleshoot any issues arising.

Current areas of activity

Alongside the Children's Services Group, at a strategic level, there are also a number of "theme groups". These groups are charged with developing Children's Services as a single system based on service integration, outcome focus, continuous improvement and are child centred.

At present, there are eight theme groups. This framework will be reviewed regularly to identify opportunities to achieve a more streamlined and responsive framework. The existing theme groups are:

· Corporate Parenting

· Child Protection

· Childcare and Early Years

· Youth Justice

· Children affected by disability

· Rights and Responsibilities

· Youth Work

· Health

Local Planning: In six local areas across Fife, services have come together in local children's services groups to examine how the Fife wide priorities might be delivered locally and to co-ordinate resultant action. Local children's services groups are key to the success of delivering integrating children's services and achievement of a cohesive and co-ordinated single system which will mean better outcomes for children and young people. The local children's services groups will allow Fife to proceed in an incremental way to develop joined up children's services. The groups provide a framework for joint planning at a local level to assist in the identification of ways in which mainstream services might be strengthened, changed or developed with better links to specialist services.

Fife's Children's Services Plan is based on seven outcomes. These are as follows:

· Safe: Children and young people should be protected from abuse, neglect and harm by others at home, school and in the community.

· Nurtured: Children and young people should live within a supportive family setting, with additional assistance if required, or, where this is not possible, within another caring setting, ensuring a positive and rewarding childhood experience.

· Healthy: Children and young people should enjoy the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health, with access to suitable healthcare and support for safe and healthy lifestyle choices.

· Achieving: Children and young people should have access to positive learning environments and opportunities to develop their skills, confidence and self esteem to the fullest potential.

· Active: Children and young people should be active with opportunities and encouragement to participate in play and recreation, including sport.

· Respected and responsible: Children, young people and their carers should be involved in decisions that affect them, should have their voices heard and should be encouraged to play an active and responsible role in their communities.

· Included: Children, young people and their carers should have access to high quality services, when required, and should be assisted to overcome the social, educational, physical, environmental and economic barriers that create inequality.

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Other web sites you may want to visit.

Choose Life is the national strategy and action plan to prevent suicide in Scotland.

Contact name:

Dr Margaret Hannah,

Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Address

Public Health

Cameron House

Cameron Bridge

Leven, KY8 5RG

Tel: 01592 226432

Email Details

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Web address

http://www.chooselife.net/web/site/xLCLP/Fife/FI_Home.asp

Role and remit: The Fife Choose Life Group, comprising representatives from NHS Fife, Fife Council and the voluntary sector works to ensure that action is taken locally to build skills, develop training, encourage people to seek help early, improve knowledge and awareness of 'what works' to prevent suicide, and to encourage partnership working and improved co-ordination between services in line with the national strategy.

Current areas of activity: Choose Life in Fife currently funds projects working with adults who self-harm (Penumbra); homeless people with mental health problems (Cornerstone); isolated older people (Contact the Elderly Scotland); adolescents with mental health issues (LINK Fife Mental Health Adolescent project); those bereaved by or affected by suicide (Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland); adult survivors of abuse (Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project); members of the lesbian and gay communities (Fife Men); and family and friends of people who have attempted suicide (National Schizophrenia Fellowship). NHS Fife Health Promotion Department also co-ordinates a training programme to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence of workers across agencies and members of the public in promoting mental health, supporting those with mental health problems and those at greater risk of suicide.

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Choose Life National Strategy and Action Plan - available to download at http://www.chooselife.net/web/FILES/Choose_Life.pdf

National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Well-Being Action Plan - available to download at http://www.chooselife.net/web/FILES/NP_Action_Plan_03-06.pdf

European Pact for Mental Health & Wellbeing

Other web sites you may want to visit.

Choose Life national programme website - http://www.chooselife.net

Penumbra - http://www.penumbra.org.uk/

Cornerstone - http://www.cornerstone-leven.org.uk/

Contact the Elderly Scotland - http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/ctescot/

LINK Fife Mental Health Adolescent project - http://www.link.itgo.com/

Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland - http://www.crusescotland.org.uk/

Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project - http://www.kasp.org.uk/

Fife Men - http://www.fifemen.org.uk/

National Schizophrenia Fellowship - http://www.nsfscot.org.uk/

Fife Families Support - http://www.fifefamilies.org.uk/

The Fife CLD Partnership consists of a range of public and voluntary sector agencies, including Fife Council, NHS Fife, Scottish Enterprise, Adam Smith College, Elmwood College, Lauder College, Careers Scotland, Youth 1^st and WEA.

The partnership is responsible for the development and implementation of Fife CLD Strategy, in line with Scottish Executive guidance provided in the document 'Working and Learning Together to Build Stronger Communities (WALT).

The three key priority areas of work are Youth Work, Adult Learning and Community Capacity Building, with a focus on disadvantaged communities

Contact name Steve McHardy

Address Room 327, Town House, Kirkcaldy

Tel: 08452 555555 ext471786

Role and remit

The partnership is responsible for the development and implementation of Fife CLD Strategy, in line with Scottish Executive guidance provided in the document 'Working and Learning Together to Build Stronger Communities (WALT).

Current areas of activity

Youth Work

Adult Learning (including Adult Literacies)

Community Capacity Building

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

'Working and Learning Together to Build Stronger Communities

Fife CLD Strategy

Fife Adult Literacies Strategic Plan

Moving Forward - National Youth Work Strategy

Modernising Youth Work  - Strengthening Fife's Future

Fife Joint Health Improvement Plan

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.learningkingdom.org.uk

Fife Community Safety Partnership aims to make Fife a safer place for everyone. It is actively working to reduce the incidence of crime and people's fear of crime. In particular, the partnership is meeting the needs of people who are most vulnerable to crime, fear of crime and inadequate community safety.

Contact name

Donald Grant

Address

North Wing
First Floor
Kingdom House
Saltire Centre
Glenrothes KY6 2AQ

Tel: 01383 609606

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Web address

www.fifedirect.org.uk/communitysafety

Role and remit

• To reduce crime and the fear of crime.
• To protect women and children from violence and abuse
• To promote community safety through action on drug, alcohol and substance misuse.
• To protect children from abuse and exploitation
• To promote road safety and safer travel.
• To promote safer communities by reducing fires and accidents.
• To promote the safety of vulnerable groups

Current areas of activity

Anti-social behaviour

Road safety, fire safety, home safety and security

Domestic violence and racial harassment

JHIP Focus Areas

Early Years and Childhood - reducing home accidents among children and young people in targeted ROA datazones

Adults in later life - Improving home safety, fire safety and home security

Communities - Tackling antisocial behaviour

Key Strategies and other documents

Community Safety Strategy 2003-2006

Safer Neighbourhoods - An antisocial behaviour strategy for Fife 2005

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.communitysafetyscotland.org

www.saferscotland.org.uk

www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com

www.rospa.com/homesafety/scotland

The Fife Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) is a partnership group established by Scottish Executive to co-ordinate activity to tackle substance misuse in Fife. The partnership includes NHS Fife, Fife Council, Fife Constabulary and Voluntary Sector services. Fife DAAT is required to report to the Scottish Executive on an annual basis and its Corporate Action Plan includes details of performance against national targets, progress on locally agreed priorities, priorities for the coming year and a breakdown of available financial resources.

DAAT works closely with a range of partners including Community Safety Partnership, Child Protection Committee and Health and Well Being Alliance. The DAAT structure includes a number of working groups, supported by the DAAT Support Team.

Contact name:

Rita Keyte

Address Kingdom House,

First Floor, North Wing,

Saltire Centre,

Glenrothes KY6 2AQ

Tel: 01383 609656

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Role and remit

DAAT is responsible for:

• Implementing national strategies on drugs and alcohol at a local level while taking into account local need
• Implementing key actions contained within National Strategies and take action to support key milestones within Fife's Community Plan
• Ensuring that a range of relevant and up to date information is collected and shared
• Promoting, facilitating and maximising the use of inter agency resources in the development of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services
• Facilitating opportunities for joint commissioning of services and encouraging effective joint working between partners agencies and making recommendations on the allocation of funding from a variety of sources
• Encouraging the participation of service users in the development and design of services

Current areas of activity

All activity supports work on national and local targets and can be grouped under the following headings:

Prevention, Education and Young People

Culture Change and Communities

Provision of Treatment and Care Services

Stifling Availability and Protection and Controls

National Targets include reducing binge drinking, reducing the harm caused to children with substance misusing parents, reducing drug related deaths, increasing the number of people accessing services and increasing the number of people who have completed treatment entering education, training and employment

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

National Drugs Strategy

Updated Plan for Action on Alcohol Problems

Fife Alcohol Strategy

Fife DAAT Corporate Action Plan

Fife Community Plan

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org

www.infoscotland.com/alcohol

www.knowthescore.info

CHPs are responsible for delivering local, community based healthcare. They will do this by enhancing joint working relationships across the whole care pathway in terms of delivery of care models, ie. across the acute hospital setting into primary care and with social care services into the community, building on what is already established to improve health and tackle inequalities in health. CHPs, in the context of single system working across the NHS in Fife, will form the cornerstone of many partnerships to deliver a wide range of joined up services.

Dunfermline & West Fife CHP
Administration Block
Lynebank Hospital
Halbeath Road
DUNFERMLINE
KY11 4UW

Telephone: 01383 565380
Fax: 01383 565324

Multi agency partnership to co-ordinate response to domestic and sexual abuse in terms of provision, protection and prevention. There is a broad membership including Fife Council, NHS Fife, Fife Constabulary and voluntary sector organisations

Contact name: Sheila Noble

Address Auchterderran Centre, Woodend Road,

Cardenden, KY5 0NE

Tel:08451 555555 ext 441967

Email Details:

Role and remit

To monitor and review the FDASAP action plan, responding to national and local priorities

To co-ordinate, monitor and review the FDASAP working groups i.e. in the areas of

• training;
• children and young people;
• criminal justice;
• equality & diversity;
• sexual violence & abuse

To liaise with organisations in voluntary and statutory sectors in Fife to promote partnership working in addressing domestic and sexual abuse.

To report to the Fife Community Safety Management Group, the Fife Health Alliance and Children's Services and other appropriate fora.

To explore and where appropriate respond to funding opportunities

Ensure there is accessible information and support services for those who have experienced domestic & / or sexual abuse at the time of need

Current areas of activity

TALK public awareness campaign re sexual assault (launch in the Autumn

Conference re domestic / sexual abuse and substance misuse (Nov 07)

Young people's Domestic Abuse conference (Feb 08) with creative input from young people

Groupwork pilot for children and young people with experience of domestic abuse

Multi-agency training programme

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

FDASAP Shared Understanding and Action Plan 2006-8

Other web sites you may want to visit.

 Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance (FHWA) is a community planning strategic partnership which has the responsibility to provide a strategic lead for improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in Fife and to ensure that organisations work together and genuinely engage communites in doing this.

Contact name Vivienne Brown, Partnership Co-ordinator 

Address Fife Council, Performance  & Organisational Support

Fife House, North Street, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 5LT

Tel: 08451 555555 Ext. 441245

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FHWA reports directly to the Fife Partnership, which leads community planning in Fife.

In line with Fife's Community Plan, 'A Stronger Future For Fife' 2007, FHWA has a responsibility to:

• ensure the delivery of 'Fife's Community Plan around the agreed strategic priorities of improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.
• provide a strong health and wellbeing element to the deliveryof the Community Plan
• provide strategic focus within which partner organisations and local communities can reduce health inequalities; create healthier environments and support healthier lifestyles.

Current areas of activity:  There are many organisations, services, groups and agencies that contribute to improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in Fife.  FHWA will provide a strategic lead for this work by:

• promoting and developing and the implementation of the Joint Health Improvement Plan (JHIP) 'A Healthier Future for Fife' (2007-2010) across partnership .
• reviewing performance against health and wellbeing outcomes through reports provided by the JHIP Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and provide public information on progress. 
• reporting to Fife Partnership on progress of JHIP implementation and any other key issues related to improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities in Fife.
• Working with other community planning strategic partnerships on cross-cutting issues related to health and wellbeing.
• strengthening links with community planning partner organisations that are not members of FHWA or its supporting groups.

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Other web sites you may want to visit.

The Fife Housing Partnership provides a single forum, accountable within the Community Planning Framework, through which investors, planning agencies, housing and linked service providers, tenants and residents can influence and participate in the development and delivery of the Local Housing Strategy for Fife, and the wider systems and processes to meet housing and related needs.

Contact name Vania Kennedy

Address

Fife Council Housing Service

Floor 3, Rothesay House,

Rothesay Place

Glenrothes

KY7 5PQ

Tel: 08451 555555 ext 444528

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Role and remit

The aim of the Fife Housing Partnership is: 'To ensure that everyone in Fife has access to an affordable, warm, secure, well-maintained home that is appropriate to their needs'.

The objectives of the Fife Housing Partnership are to:

• Develop, implement and review the Local Housing Strategy for Fife on behalf of Fife Council, taking account of national, regional and local housing priorities,
• Review progress of housing activity against the objectives of the Fife Community Plan,
• Maintain appropriate links to, and involvement in, the activities of the key Community Planning partnerships in Fife,
• Maximise stakeholder participation in the development of housing policy,
• Comment on statutory plans, the national strategy / policy framework and current housing issues, and provide views giving a Fife perspective to outside bodies, including the Scottish Executive, and
• Promote and develop the work of housing interest groups / forums active in Fife.

Current areas of activity

Building Social Inclusion Theme:

Homelessness, health and homelessness, housing support, special housing needs, fuel poverty

Supporting Sustainability Theme:

Affordable housing investment, construction skills, housing quality, environment and sustainability

Improving Private Housing Theme:

Private housing condition and regulation

Co-ordination and Support

Local Housing Strategy, housing information and research, information and advice, equalities

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Local Housing Strategy is the umbrella strategy for the following strategic statements:

• Homelessness Strategy
• Health and Homelessness Action Plan
• Supporting People Strategy
• Special Housing Needs Strategy
• Fuel Poverty Strategy
• Affordable Housing Policy / Strategic Local Investment Framework
• Home Energy Conservation Act Plan
• Housing Information and Advice Strategy

Other web sites you may want to visit.

(Local Housing Strategy pages on Fife Direct are currently under review)

www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk

Fife Independent Disability Network is a disability - led organisation which is a registered charity.  We work to improve access to services and equality of opportunity for all disabled people in Fife.

Management Committee members are also involved in a number of consultative groups, generally with statutory organisations such as NHS Fife and Fife Council.

Members from all over Fife come together every two months to discuss disability issues, raise concerns and decide on courses of action to take.

Contact name:

Muriel MacGregor /

 Co-ordinator

Address West Bridge Mill

Bridge Street

Kirkcaldy

KY1 1TE

Tel: 01592 203993  Fax: 01592203786

Role and remit

Current areas of activity

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Fife Police, Fife Council, NHS Fife on Disability Equality Duty

Other web sites you may want to visit.

Fife Independant Disability Network

Contact Name: Graham Ball, Consultant in Dental Public Health

Address: NHS Fife, Cameron House, Cameron Bridge, Leven, KY8 5RG

Tel: 01592 226416

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Web address http://www.nhsfife.scot.nhs.uk/

Role and remit

The aim of FOHSG is to: Improve oral and dental health across Fife, with a particular focus on key priority groups where the greatest inequalities and barriers exist; and the need to implement the Scottish Dental Action Plan (2005).

FOHSG will achieve its aim by;

1. Advising Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance/Lead Group and other lead agencies on priorities for oral health.
2. Maintaining strategic links with Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance/Lead Group and other key partners.
3. Identify priorities based on the guidance of current strategic documents and through strategic planning with other key partners.
4. Reporting the outcome of oral health interventions to the Health and Wellbeing Alliance/Lead Group and other relevant parties.
5. Identifying securing and co-ordinating funding necessary for implementing oral health interventions.
6. Promoting good oral health, sharing information, and best practice in the development of oral health initiatives with other strategic groups
7. Advise and where appropriate help direct projects in Fife which are aimed at promoting oral health and ensuring that oral health improvement priorities in the Scottish Dental Action Plan are fully implemented.

Current areas of activity

Development of New Oral Health Strategy;

Overview of Core Oral Health Programme;

Introduction of Childsmile to Fife (a national oral health demonstration Programme)

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

Oral Health Strategy (in development)

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.child-smile.org

A network of around 20 people who (mainly) work in the public and voluntary sectors in Fife and have a commitment to promoting and enhancing children's play experiences. FPN has existed in some form since 1997 and grew from Fife Play Partnership.

Contact name: Christine Euler

Sports & Leisure Manager

Community Services

Fife Institute

Viewfield

Glenrothes

KY6 2RB

Tel 01592 415700

Role and remit

Members of FPN feel very strongly that play is absolutely crucial to the future of a healthy, happy and creative Fife. Members have agreed guiding principles and work towards creating a wide range of stimulating play environments in any way that falls within their influence.

FPN reports to Fife's Children's Services Committee. Until Fife has a dedicated Play Strategy Co-ordinator, the role and remit of FPN will continue to depend upon what the members can fit into their current responsibilities.

Current areas of activity

JHIP Focus Areas

Key Strategies and other documents

"Our Banner for Play" - Fife Play Strategy 2006 - 2009

"Children and self-directed play: a research report" 2004

Other web sites you may want to visit.

www.playscotland.org

www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk

Fife's Physical Activity Strategy Group (PASG) is established to implement the broad objectives contained within the report "Let's Make Scotland More Active: A Strategy for Physical Activity" (SE 2003). The PASG supports the strategic direction and partnership activities of Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the Fife Health and Wellbeing Lead Group and is accountable to Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance as a Community Planning partnership. The PASG is the lead partner for a number of actions focused on physical activity in Fife's Joint Health Improvement Plan 2007-2010 (JHIP) and aims to balance its strategic leadership role with strong links to all those impacting on the promotion of physical activity at local level.

Contact name:

Harry Black - Chair

Emma Broadhurst - Physical Activity Coordinator

Fiona Dale - Physical Activity Coordinator

Address: Haig House, Cameron Hospital, Cameron Bridge, Leven Fife KY8 5RA

Tel: 01592 226486

Email Details: