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Community regeneration funding package
09/12/2004
Scotland's 32 Community Planning Partnerships are to
share a £318 million funding package over the next three
years to tackle poverty in the country's most deprived
communities.
The Community Regeneration Fund (CRF) aims to improve
the life of thousands of people by lifting them out of
poverty with sustained support to improve health and get
people back into work, training and education.
The funding breakdown has been allocated based on levels
identified by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
2004, which ensures that Scotland's most deprived areas
will get the highest levels of support.
Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm said increased
funding and better targeting would ensure that the money
was put to best effect in the local areas that needed it
most.
Mr Chisholm said:
"Our commitment and drive to break the cycle of
deprivation across Scotland has never been greater.
"This £318 million package is a substantial investment
which will help all 32 Community Planning Partnerships meet
ambitious targets to reduce poverty levels and take forward
initiatives tailored to local need. It will improve the
lives of thousands of people.
"I am proud of our anti-poverty record to date, but
recognise there is more work to do to ensure opportunities
for all. Nobody, however, can deny that real improvements
have been made and I'm confident this funding will provide
even greater impetus to regenerate communities and reduce
poverty."
The Minister also unveiled 10 new Closing the
Opportunity Gap (CtOG) targets which will help ensure that
the Executive's renewed focus on anti-poverty work will
involve action across all its Departments.
The Community Regeneration Fund will play a vital role
in helping to meet the new targets, particularly Target J,
to promote community regeneration of the most deprived
neighbourhoods through improvements by 2008 in
employability, education, health, access to local services
and quality of the local environment.
Mr Chisholm added:
"This target focusus our efforts on achieving real
improvements for people's lives through enhancing the
education, health and job prospects of people in Scotland's
most disadvantaged communities.
"Together with local partners, we are investing
resources in the long term and I want to be sure that these
are being spent and targeted effectively.
"If we are serious about closing the opportunity gap,
then councils, the health service, the police, the
enterprise networks and others must work with us and with
the communities they serve to help secure these
improvements."
Additional regeneration support is to be made available
to three areas through their granting of 'Pathfinder' Urban
Regeneration (URC) status - Clydebank, Craigmillar
(Edinburgh) and Raploch (Stirling).
Funding in principle of £20 million was announced in
June, and it is expected that more detailed funding
announcements will be made shortly.
Community Regeneration Fund
In July 2004, the Executive announced a new Community
Regeneration Fund, established to bring improvements to
Scotland's most deprived areas, which replaces the existing
SIP fund (£61m for 2004/05), the Better Neighbourhood
Services Fund (£31.2m for 2004/05) and the Tackling Drugs
Misuse Fund (£3m for 2004/05).
The new fund will allocate overall sums of
£104.45m/£106m/£107.275m over the next three years.
Indicative allocations for 2005/06 were announced on 12
July 2004.
The Multiple Deprivation Index ranks areas of around 750
people, called data zones, from the most deprived (No. 1)
to the least deprived (No. 6,505).
Two thirds of the CRF has been allocated to the most
deprived 15% of data zones (i.e. Nos. 1 to 976). The
remaining funds have been allocated to those Community
Planning Partnerships with above average (i.e. more than
15%) concentration of deprivation in their area (marked
with an asterisk below).
To ensure that all CPPs can develop and deliver a
Regeneration Outcome Agreement, a minimum CRF allocation of
£100k will apply from the start of 2005/06.
Furthermore, to help CPPs manage the change from
existing funding regimes to the CRF CPPs will receive at
least 60 percent of their 2004/05 SIP/BNSF allocation in
2006/07 and 40 percent in 2007/08 and/or the reduction in
funding will be no more than £0.5m from 2006/07 to
2007/08.
Subject to agreeing three-year Regeneration Outcome
Agreements, the allocation for each CPP is set out
below.
The figures are in £s and relate to financial years
2005/06; 2006/07; 2007/08; and total for the three years
(rounded to nearest £k).
- Aberdeen City: 1,218,000; 1,226,000; 1,282,000 =
3,726,000.
- Aberdeenshire: 135,000; 136,000; 142,000 =
413,000.
- Angus: 203,000; 204,00; 214,000 = 621,000.
- Argyll & Bute: 986,000; 788,000 ; 641,000 =
2,415,000.
- *Clackmannanshire: 1,104,000; 1,111,000; 1,162,000
= 3,377,000.
- Dumfries & Galloway: 675,000; 613,000; 641,000
= 1,929,000.
- *Dundee City: 5,775,000; 5,665,000; 5,927,000 =
17,367,000.
- *East Ayrshire: 4,033,000; 3,533,000; 3,254,000 =
10,820,000.
- East Dunbartonshire: 271,000; 272,000; 285,000 =
828,000.
- East Lothian: 126,000; 101,000; 100,000 =
327,000.
- East Renfrewshire: 406,000; 409,000; 427,000;
1,242,000.
- Edinburgh: 7,176,000; 6,676,000; 6,176,000 =
20,028,000.
- Eilean Siar: 356,000; 285,000; 190,000;
831,000.
- Falkirk: 791,000; 953,000; 997,000 =
2,741,000.
- Fife: 1,806,000; 2,247,000; 2,351,000 =
6,404,000.
- *Glasgow: 39,886,000; 41,433,000; 43,350,000 =
124,669,000.
- Highland: 609,000; 613,000; 641,000 =
1,863,000.
- *Inverclyde: 5,381,000; 4,881,000; 4,381,000 =
14,643,000
- Midlothian: 100,000; 100,000; 100,000 =
300,000
- Moray: 361,000; 289,000; 193,000 = 843,000
- *North Ayrshire: 3,403,000; 3,666,000; 3,835,000 =
10,904,000
- *North Lanarkshire: 9,847,000; 11,441,000;
11,971,000 = 33,259,000
- Orkney Islands: 100,000; 100,000; 100,000 =
300,000
- Perth & Kinross: 203,000; 204,000; 214,000 =
621,000
- *Renfrewshire: 4,527,000; 4,554,000; 4,765,000 =
13,846,000
- Scottish Borders: 203,000; 163,000; 142,000 =
508,000
- Shetland Islands: 100,000; 100,000; 100,000 =
300,000
- South Ayrshire: 1,767,000; 1,360,000; 926,000 =
4,053,000
- *South Lanarkshire: 6,861,000; 7,331,000; 7,670,000
= 21,862,000
- Stirling: 406,000; 409,000; 427,000 =
1,242,000
- *West Dunbartonshire: 4,956,000; 4,456,000;
3,956,000 = 13,368,000
- West Lothian: 677,000; 681,000; 712,000 =
2,070,000
* - see note 2 above