Common use of Dundee City Indicators Clause in Contracts

Dundee City Indicators. The Dundee Partnership is keen to develop a detailed and robust set of local indicators. We have included the best which are currently available but acknowledge the Improvement Service's note of caution that "… very relevant indicators cannot be reliably quantified at local level at present", and that they "… often show limitations in the current reliability of indicators if deployed at local level". We are responding to this in 3 ways: • encouraging the Scottish Government to take responsibility for the measurement of key indicators in a way that can provide the required detail at a local level • developing our own expertise in collecting local data while learning from practice elsewhere • working towards a series of 'closing the gap' indicators which will measure the reduction in inequalities in relation to the key regeneration outcomes at the heart of the Fairer Scotland agenda. In the meantime, to set the context for each of the national indicators, this document sets out the strengths of the city and the progress we are making, along with the challenges which remain. Predominant among these are the inequalities experienced by too many communities in Dundee. These are starkly demonstrated in the results of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2006. The impact on the degree of inequality in Dundee is presented through the relevant domains of the SIMD 2006 in the outcomes with the most significant relationship to regeneration. Where robust data is available, SMART targets are set at a local and regeneration level, otherwise direction of travel targets are used.

Dundee City Indicators. The Dundee Partnership is keen to develop a detailed and robust set of local indicators. We have included the best which are currently available but acknowledge the Improvement Service's note of caution that "… very relevant indicators cannot be reliably quantified at local level at present", and that they "… often show limitations in the current reliability of indicators if deployed at local level". We are responding to this in 3 ways: •  encouraging the Scottish Government to take responsibility for the measurement of key indicators in a way that can provide the required detail at a local level •  developing our own expertise in collecting local data while learning from practice elsewhere •  working towards a series of 'closing the gap' indicators which will measure the reduction in inequalities in relation to the key regeneration outcomes at the heart of the Fairer Scotland agenda. In the meantime, to set the context for each of the national indicators, this document sets out the strengths of the city and the progress we are making, along with the challenges which remain. Predominant among these are the inequalities experienced by too many communities in Dundee. These are starkly demonstrated in the results of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2006. The impact on the degree of inequality in Dundee is presented through the relevant domains of the SIMD 2006 in the outcomes with the most significant relationship to regeneration. Where robust data is available, SMART targets are set at a local and regeneration level, otherwise direction of travel targets are used.