Annual Review & Annual Planning Meeting

1. Annual Review & Annual Planning Meeting 1. The Year in 5 Slides 2. APM Overview and Outcomes 3. 2010-11 Plans – top-line items

2. 2009-10: A Year in 5 Slides • The year of….. • Climate Change Bill… Climate Change (Scotland) Act… Public Sector Duty… • SCCD Year 2 reports… 21 reporting by end of 2009 • SSN’s first one-day annual conference • Best Value 2 and a brand new ‘Sustainability Framework’ • LCLIPs phase 2 and SCCIP secretariat fully functional • Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan… and the revitalisation of the SPWG • The final year of the Local Footprints Project… and the start of a new programme • SOAs V2.0 – around 20 LAs using Footprint and more referring to carbon reduction…. SOA Menu of Outcome Indicators V4.0 • 5 Quarterlies (!!??!!) plus 6 Local Footprints national events – virtually one a month • SSN staff changes… SSN office move • Core grant secured for 20010-11… • Inverclyde comes to life in SSN….

3. SSN Annual Review 2009-10 • Annual Planning Meeting 09 Objectives: • SSN remains well-respected and valued / S’g members and SSN members active and involved • Programme priorities remain relevant, with BV work dependent on work of others • SSN impact and reach needs to be enhanced, including working with strategic partners and other parts of local government • Information – the lifeblood of SSN • Pace of change • SSN resources- core and new sources to be secured • Operational dynamism needs to be linked to achieving strategic radicalism, with partnership working remaining central to SSN’s work • Annual Conference – revised to a one-day event / build of experience of past conferences

4. Programme Priorities • Climate Change • Alignment of SSN’s national CC work with COSLA’s CC TG and OSG. • Positive relations remain with Carbon Trust and SCCIP, and SSN’s work on area-wide emissions/footprinting can play important role moving forward on PS Duty & SOAs • SCCD Reports provide wealth of valuable information – yet to be fully analysed – and consistency of approach improving across LAs and CPPs • Major concerns about pace of change, scale of change, depth of analysis • Local Footprints • All targets met or exceeded / Final evaluation reflected excellent achievements of this project • Strong partnership working, outcomes focused, flexible/reactive, broad impact across LAs and schools (and potentially communities) • Training, interface to technical experts, a ‘shared service’ for LAs, well-positioned with NI186, Carbon Budgeting, scenario planning and policy analysis • New legislative landscape throws up challenges and opportunities for Footprinting… but relations with SG and IS bode well for exemplar and schools work in 2010

5. Programme Priorities • Sustainable Procurement • SSPAP out in October 2009 • SPWG meeting regularly again and is focusing on a less ambitious programme of work - possible SP quarterly format to meetings – sharing good practice and moving the agenda forward • Networking the networks will be vital in achieving efficient impact • Challenge of adhering to SPAP timescales • Best Value / SOAs • Audit Scotland due to be invited to future S/g meeting. SSN responded to BV2 consultation • BV2 pilots provide potential context for collaborative learning • LFP provided briefings on integrating Footprint method into SOAs • SSN/LFP responded to the Outcome Indicators Project – Quarterly Meeting, Briefing etc.. Meetings with IS • SG and IS interested in SSN work on SOAs and CC/SD outcomes

6. SSN Members, Communications & Events • 5 Quarterlies = 218 delegates / majority local government • Good overall ‘return rate’ to events • With LFP events, SSN has run a national event in every month, except March, July and August (and we done 2 in April) • Conference – max delegates, strong LA&Public sector turn-out, high exhibitor numbers – very positive feedback • Website – steady growth, now with new website news and search functions • Forum – nose-dive / now shifting to the Communities of Practice site • Membership – varies across local authorities from 1 member to 9 members

7. Annual Planning Meeting 2010 • Agenda • 1. SSN 2009 Progress Report • 2. SSN Research Findings • 3. Break-out groups • How to secure senior level engagement • Smarter ways of working • Ask not what SSN can do for you, but what you can do for SSN • 4. Business Planning for 2010-11

8. APM Report and Key Messages • Report finalised and will be posted on CoP in next week. • Key messages and actions: • 2009 has been another successful year for SSN • The 4 programme priorities remain relevant, with a focus on climate change • SSN should seek to develop senior level engagement through top-down and bottom-up methods • SSN needs to work smarter – do things differently, seek added-value, recognise our initiation role • Need to improve flows of information, especially sharing • SSN Conference 2010 will adopt a similar format to 2009 • Governance and procedural matters need clarifying: Membership, AGM, Steering Group

9. Membership Criteria & Steering Group Renewal • Membership • SSN’s Operating Principles paper lists who qualifies to be an SSN member. We will develop membership criteria and resources that clarify who’s a member, what this entails, and how members can more effectively access SSN services. • Steering Group Renewal & Procedures • Based on clarified membership, and focusing on the critical role of ‘lead-SSN members’ in each council, we will elect new Steering Group members. • We will be filling 1 or 2 current vacancies in the next couple of months – to pilot the ‘election’ process • We will have a third of steering group members stepping down each year (all can be re-nominated). Three year terms for all new members. • Election process will run each year from October to December – with new Steering Group members joining in December ready for APM in early new year. Current Steering Group will remain in-position for time-being. • Steering Group members decide on Chair and Vice-Chair. Other Steering Group members will hold portfolios (programme priorities & organisational development roles) • Goodwill and Trust will remain key to SSN’s ways of working

10. SSN Events 2010

11. Next Steps • Annual Planning Meeting and Research Reports will go on the Communities of Practice website • Membership criteria and Steering Group procedures will be clarified and communicated to all members • Steering Group renewal will be piloted over the next month or so, with full election process in October to December • Next Quarterly likely to be 14th June in Edinburg on Procurement • Offers of venues for September and December Quarterlies would be welcomed – talk to SSN staff • SSN Conference and events draft programmes will go on the CoP for members to contribute to • SSN Conference registration will open by 1st June, with full publicity materials live from 18th June