Orkney Community Plan

The Orkney Community Plan 2011-14, sets out the Orkney Community Planning Partnership’s strategic framework and will guide activity and development over the next decade and beyond. It encompasses into one document, two statutory requirements placed upon Community Planning Partnerships – the Single Outcome Agreement and the Community Plan.

Chair of Orkney’s Community Planning Partnership, OIC Convener Stephen Hagan, said: “This plan has been produced as a commitment to the people of Orkney to show what we as public service providers will contribute towards Orkney’s local priorities and the Scottish Government’s National Outcomes, which are ambitions of the Scottish Government for the whole of Scotland.”

The previous Single Outcome Agreement is also available from the 'Related Downloads' section of this page.

About Single Outcome Agreements

The Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) component of the Orkney Community Plan is a two way agreement between the Scottish Government and the Orkney Community Planning Partnership. It sets out what Orkney will do locally to progress the 15 National Outcomes, and what Orkney asks the Scottish Government in return to help progress local priorities and the National Outcomes. Within each National Outcome are a number of local priorities and these focus the work of public service providers collectively under the Orkney Community Planning Partnership. The SOA concept was an outcome of the 2007 Concordat between Scottish Government and Local Government (available to view from the 'Related Sites' section of this page).

The Community Plan part of the Orkney Community Plan sets out longer term aspirations and visions for Orkney. This requirement pre-dated the SOA requirement and was introduced through the same piece of legislation which made Community Planning Partnerships statutory in every Scottish local authority area – the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003.