Public performance reports

Neighbourhood Planning/Community Led Planning

Neighbourhood Planning is a community engagement process in which local residents, local agencies, community groups and organisations work collaboratively to develop local plans for their neighbourhood.  The neighbourhoods are identified as some of our most deprived communities in South Lanarkshire and the aim of this process is to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes for residents within these neighbourhoods.  The Neighbourhood Planning process works to build a shared understanding of local priorities and work together to make use of resources and enhance community participation.

Our Place Our Plan Stakeholder Groups and Neighbourhood Planning Groups continue to act as a catalyst to empower and build the capacity and participation of local people.  The use of an asset-based approach to Neighbourhood Planning is helping build community involvement, confidence and aspiration.  Delivering the Neighbourhood Plans has created opportunities for increased local decision making, partnership working and greater collaboration between local people and those providing services.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which local people decide directly how to spend part of a public budget.  PB enables the active participation of communities in local financial decision making, enabling residents to have a direct say in how a defined budget can be used to address locally identified priorities.  PB has become central to the advancement of three policy agendas in Scotland: Public Service Reform, Community Empowerment and Social Justice.  In South Lanarkshire, Place Based PB is aligned to the development and delivery of Neighbourhood Plans.  Each plan has a set of ten priority themes, and any community led PB proposals are required to meet at least one of these priorities.  The allocation of PB funds is decided through a public vote, promoting community empowerment through participatory democracy.

There are now nine completed neighbourhood plans (Burnhill, Fernhill, Springhall and Whitlawburn, Cambuslang East, Blantyre, Hillhouse/ Udston/ Burnbank, Whitehill, Strutherhill and Birkenshaw, Hamilton South, and one themed neighbourhood plan in development in EK South (linked to tackling child poverty at the neighbourhood level) on 31st March 2025.

Highlights of progress, secured through Community Engagement and Neighbourhood Planning during 2024-25

In September 2024, PB took place in nine Neighbourhood Planning areas across the Hamilton and Cambuslang/Rutherglen localities.  A total of £155,000 was invested in community led projects, £40,000 from South Lanarkshire Council and a further contribution of £105,000 from the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund. 

The council’s Community Engagement Team Development Officers are working with nine communities to progress Neighbourhood Planning, and a further one area is in progress. 

Fernhill (Rutherglen)

• £13,950 was awarded for local projects, 405 people voted through the PB process for four projects to be funded during 2024/25. The successful bids were used to cover the running costs of a soccer school, and the purchase of football goals to promote younger and older participation in football at community pitches, a playscheme offering social outings and residential stays to local children, and to pay for a Christmas celebration for the whole community.

 Burnhill (Rutherglen)

• £13,950 was awarded for local projects, 382 people voted through the PB process for three projects to be funded during 2024/25. The successful bids were used to develop a digital training HUB and to promote community access to IT equipment, provide employability training and job search support for locals, and to support a men’s group and for the purchase of gardening equipment for the group.

Hamilton South

• £21,700 was awarded for local projects, 911 people voted through the PB process for five projects to be funded, and one part funded during 2024/25. The successful bids included the purchase of a converted shipping container to become a community café. Garden on a plate, a 12-week training programme around fruit/ vegetable growing, a community wide project promoting reading, a sports and physical activity for primary aged children, remedial repairs to a building transferred through community asset transfer. Training for community capacity building, safeguarding training, and the disclosure costs and the purchase of IT equipment. 

• Example- ‘Eddlewood FA’ used the PB funding to purchase a shipping container to be converted into a community space and community café.

Whitehill (Hamilton)

• £10,850 was awarded for local projects, 288 people voted through the PB process for five projects to be funded, and one part funded during 2024/25. The project themes included- (1) A Community Fun Day; (2) A health and wellbeing programme; (3) Community breakfasts; (4) A sports club.

• Example- ‘Whitehill Activity Group’ to cover the cost of hosting six community breakfasts aimed at building community connectedness and addressing financial wellbeing. The food was provided free to all the attendees

Hillhouse, Udston and Burnbank (Hamilton)

• £27,900 was awarded for local projects, 879 people voted through the PB process for seven projects to be funded and one part funded during 2024/25. The successful bids were used to purchase food supplies for a food pantry, to fund two defibrillators, the purchase of a polytunnel, improvements to green and open space, capacity building support and training, to develop a youth development team, a supported study programme for high school pupils, a residential camp for young people.

• Example- ‘Hillhouse Link Tenant and Residents Association’ has secured funding to support the continuation of the group’s community café and food pantry enabling the group to offer free hot food, nutritious food packages and a choice in food aid provision through their pantry. The group will also use the funding to deliver Phase 5 of a development plan for their recreational space, to purchase a poly tunnel and to pay for the instalment. Food grown on site will be used at the groups community café and distributed via food packs to the local community.

Blantyre- Blantyre Futures

• £17,050 was awarded for local projects, 1,582 people voted through the PB process for four funded projects, and one-part funded project during 2024/25. The successful projects included two women’s mental health and wellbeing programmes aimed at promoting wellbeing and reducing isolation, a capacity building volunteer development programme for young people, and a festive initiative targeting high school pupils.

• Example- ‘Bonny Blantyre’ a civic project run to encourage local young people to volunteer and take an interest in horticulture, and through this to improve the environment around Blantyre. The funding secured was also used to support local families though a Christmas initiative, designed to reduce financial stress on family incomes during the festive period.

Springhall and Whitlawburn (Rutherglen/ Cambuslang)

• £15,500 was awarded for local projects, 1,960 people voted through the PB process for six fully funded projects and one-part funded project during 2024/25. The successful bids were used to pay for free themed community events open to all, a film projector and screen and to pay for a community movie licence, to cover the cost of hall lets for local groups, a waste skip initiative, an adult support group for people with disabilities, to support a men’s group, and to provide fitness classes.

• Example- ‘The Future Communities’ project to finance community capacity building and to develop the skills of local young people and the wider community. Funding is being requested to help with the groups running costs, including organising community events for all.

Strutherhill and Birkenshaw (Larkhall)

• £18,600 was awarded for local projects, 566 people voted through the PB process for three funded projects, and one-part funded project during 2024/25. The successful bids included support for community events and activities, an afterschool activity promoting health and wellbeing, the hosting of six community breakfasts, a community fun day delivered in partnership with community groups and organisations, and a community sports club.

• Example- ‘The Machan Trust’ to be used to deliver an exciting range of after school activities for primary aged children.  Two groups will be established to better serve different age groups with age related activities, and will include crafts, cooking, environmental projects, recycle and reuse, clothing upcycling, among others.  The intention is that through fun and interactive activities, this will encourage young people to socialise, build resilience, and promote greater awareness of health and wellbeing.

Cambuslang East

• £15,500 was awarded for local projects, 1,386 people voted through the PB process for two funded projects during 2024/25. The successful bids were used to pay for  school transport and minibus hire to enable pupils and parents to participate in educational and social visits, and the development and delivery of a mother and toddler group.

East Kilbride South

• The East Kilbride South Neighbourhood Plan is still in development as of 31st March 2025.  Initial engagement from local residents, community views and engagement with young people from local schools have taken place during 2024/25 and data analysis from this engagement are still being considered as a basis to progress future actions. 

• The development of the Stakeholder Group has been a priority for the Community Engagement Team during 2024/25 as a start to build capacity and to engage about local priorities.  As a result of initial engagement exercise undertaken with the Stakeholder Group, local concerns about the future of Greenhills Library and Community Hall, which were scheduled by SLC for closure in spring/ summer 2024, were quickly identified as a community priority and was a catalyst for further local engagement work.  The Stakeholder Group is currently looking for ways to ensure these local assets are kept in community ownership, before proceeding onto further community action planning workshops and events during the course of 2025/26.

• A Participatory Budgeting event has been held by the Stakeholder Group with Third Sector partner Healthy & Active hosting the funds with £7,000 funding awarded eight local groups.  A total of 3,480 votes were cast from 1,160 people.

Community Led Planning

The Community Led Planning process enables communities to identify local priorities and produce an action plan that helps people to take realistic steps towards the change they want to see.  As of 31st March 2025, there were 10 community led plans either active/ existing or in progress. The most up to date list of Community led plans is available through the Community Planning website here –

Community Planning

In addition to the Community Led plans the CPP website hosts a toolkit for community organisations interested in developing their own local community plans, which can be accessed through the link below-

Community Planning

Community Asset Transfer (CAT)

The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 gives community organisations a right to ask to take over control of land or a building.  If the community organisation’s plan is better for people, they will be allowed to buy, rent or have the use of it.  This is called Community Asset Transfer (CAT).  The Act sets out specific eligibility criteria that needs to be met by community organisations.  The ownership or control of community assets is a powerful tool for communities to drive change and achieve their goals.

South Lanarkshire Council has a designated Community Asset Transfer Officer who is part of the Community Engagement Team. During 2024-25 15 applications for Community Asset Transfers were received from local community groups or organisations, as of 31st March 2025, nine applications for CAT have been approved, two refused, one withdrawn and four are still pending a decision.

• Example-  ‘Lesmahagow Development Trust (LDT)’, were successful with a CAT request in September 2024 to take over ownership of The Fountain Community Centre in Lesmahagow. This long-term lease has enabled the Trust to secure the facility for continuing community use and to support existing hall users whilst developing new partnerships and lets. The lease on the hall has acted as a catalyst for further local partnership working, with the LDT, working closely with the Lesmahagow Community Council, motivated members of the community and other local groups to develop a Local Place Plan (LPP) , which has now been adopted by the council’s planning service. This document will be updated annually in order to celebrate the successes of the community in meeting local needs, and included short (1-2 year), medium (3-5 year), and long term (10 year) objectives for further work in the community.

More information on the Community Asset Transfer is available through the link below

Community asset transfer - South Lanarkshire Council

There is also information available to community groups interested in developing their own local place plan, this can be accessed through the link below-

Local Place Plans - South Lanarkshire Council

Community Participation Requests

Community Participation requests are a formal way for community bodies to request to be involved in decisions and put forward their ideas on how services could be changed to improve outcomes for the community.  Requests can be made to a range of public bodies including South Lanarkshire Council, NHS Lanarkshire, Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue, etc. No participation requests were received by the Community Engagement Team and the Community Planning Partnership during 2024/25.

To make a participation request, your group must meet some requirements including having a membership open to your community and working for community benefit.  Your first step should be getting in touch with the public body you would like to work with for assistance in getting started.  This can identify if they are the right public body to contact and they can also help you to get advice and information about any existing consultations or decision-making processes that you could be involved in without needing to make a formal participation request.

• Community Planning

Volunteering

The Community Engagement Team takes a lead of behalf of South Lanarkshire Council in terms of partnership working with the Voluntary Sector in South Lanarkshire.   Volunteering strengthens communities and promotes collective well-being, as well as supporting vital local services, promoting social inclusion and encouraging civic engagement. The range of activities supported by local volunteers, includes tackling poverty work (e.g. food banks, financial advice services), youth programmes, older peoples care services, community representative and interest groups. During 2023/24 the Community Engagement Team working in partnership with Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire (VASLAN) helped to develop volunteering opportunities locally for

• 1,078 new volunteers registered, an increase of 50% of 2023/24
• 345 individuals supported to address barriers to volunteering.
• 2,037 volunteering placements facilitated. 
• 62 new volunteering opportunities created.
• 199 new Saltire volunteer registrations.
• 9,751 Saltire hours logged.
• 8 Saltire Group Administrators approved.
• 251 Saltire Certificates issued.

Community Partnerships

Through the creation of Community Partnerships, local organisations and residents can voice what matters to them and their community regularly to the Community Planning Partnership (CPP) Board.  The goal of the South Lanarkshire CPP is to ensure that communities actively participate in the community planning process, empowering local residents to have a voice to support community-led decision making and local democracy.  The focus of these groups is to highlight and address local inequalities.  Community Partnership groups have been established in four areas: Cambuslang and Rutherglen, Clydesdale, East Kilbride and Strathaven, and Hamilton, Blantyre, Bothwell, Larkhall, Stonehouse and Uddingston areas. The Chair of the group is also a member of the Community Planning Partnership Board.  More information about the Community Partnerships is available below-

• Cambuslang and Rutherglen Community Partnership
• Clydesdale Community Partnership
• East Kilbride and Strathaven Community Partnership
• Hamilton Community Partnership

The Community Planning Partnership’s (CPP) Community Development Officer has worked collaboratively with council officers and various CPP partners, to build capacity across all four localities. Ongoing support continues through smaller, locality-based conversations, and through stakeholder groups, aimed at building confidence, highlighting the purpose of the partnerships, and strengthening opportunities for local voices to be heard. In addition, volunteers completed a self-assessment of how the partnerships were working during 2024/25.  An action plan has been developed and includes actions relating to learning and meeting arrangements, etc.

There has also been a concentrated effort to increase membership in the Community Partnership’s in all localities during 2024/25 and locate people who would like to represent or chair existing partnerships moving forwards.  Over the course of year 2024/25, the membership of the Cambuslang and Rutherglen and Clydesdale Community Partnerships has remained consistent.  With the Community Planning Partnership’s Community Development Officer (CDO) attending wider council-led community meetings, new chances to identify more members have emerged across communities.  In the Hamilton and East Kilbride Community Partnership areas, efforts are still being made to increase membership and capacity through ongoing engagement with community groups and partner agencies.  It has been agreed that chairs are required for both the Hamilton and East Kilbride Community Partnerships.  There are still opportunities to find and encourage new members to participate in the Community Planning Partnerships through regular Neighbourhood Planning meetings.

Community Wish List

The Community Wish List gives local groups a simple way to ask for the help they need. Community organisations can submit a ‘wish’ for specific support, which is then shared with council-approved local suppliers and contractors, as well as independent businesses. These suppliers respond by providing goods, services or practical help directly to benefit community groups, projects and local good causes. The key strength of the scheme is that it is community-led, local people decide what support would make the biggest difference in their area.

During 2024/2025, 73 groups and organisations across South Lanarkshire had a wish answered, with support totalling £89,513. This included financial donations, materials and equipment, and voluntary time and expertise from local businesses.

The full list of organisations supported, along with examples of the help provided, on our website at  Community Wish List

Challenging Poverty

Reducing poverty and tackling inequalities and deprivation is the overarching priority for the Community Engagement Team and Community Planning Partnership going forward from 2024/25 as this becomes more prevalent among a greater proportion of the South Lanarkshire population due to the cost-of-living crisis.  The current Community Planning Partnership model involves a wide range of national and local organisations who are working together to tackle the underlying causes of poverty linked to themes such as Food Poverty, Energy Poverty, Financial Inclusion, Low Pay and Digital Exclusion. More detail on activities undertaken by the Community Planning Partnership linked to each specific poverty themes, and notable achievements during 2024/25, are provided below:-

Challenging Poverty Groups

Fuel Poverty/ Digital Inclusion

The Community Engagement Team and Community Planning Partnership continue to co-ordinate the development of actions and strategy to respond to issues such as Fuel Poverty and Digital Inclusion.

During 2024/25, progress made by the two groups whose membership draws on experience from council services, CPP partner organisations and the voluntary sector includes-  

• Developing new and updated Action Plans for both Fuel Poverty and Digital Inclusion.
• Contributed to the most recent SLC Digital Inclusion Strategy  (see below)
  Digital Strategy 2022-2027 Plans and policies - South Lanarkshire Council.
• Continue to develop online communications and to circulate information to partners and communities to highlight the work of the groups and to facilitate networking and information sharing on fuel poverty and digital inclusion issues.
• Continue to look at new opportunities for funding local projects, such as the Lived Experience Fund, linked to themes around digital inclusion, fuel poverty, energy advice and efficiency, and money advice services.
• Routinely signpost clients to relevant support and advice services, such as Home Energy Scotland and Energy Action Scotland.

The groups also contributed to the Financial Inclusion Network (FIN) Community Networking Event during Challenge Poverty Week in October 2024 (see Financial Inclusion).

The activities of both the groups are highlighted to partners and the wider public by the release of a weekly communications bulletin on the Community Planning Partnership and South Lanarkshire Councils social media channels (see link to ‘FIN News’ through the link below).

Financial Inclusion Network News

In addition to the work of the two themed groups, the Community Engagement Team also supports work to alleviate fuel poverty locally by providing funding direct to local money advice services such as the Citizen Advice Bureaux (CAB).

• During 2024/25 the four South Lanarkshire CABs together dealt with 4,256 enquiries from clients related to energy advice/ energy debt/ reducing energy costs and secured £407,000 in financial gains for households pressed by the high cost of energy, a +227% increase on the amounts secured for clients in 2023/24.

Living Wage Campaign Group

The Living Wage Campaign Group is a Lanarkshire wide group, made up of representatives from council services and organisations across the public and voluntary sector. The priority for the group is to maximise the number of employers locally paying the Real Living Wage, through engagement with local businesses and employers, designing initiatives to promote the Living Wage- including financial incentives, and highlighting the benefits of paying the Living Wage to employers/businesses, employees and the local community

• During 2024/25, the group continued to support the Living Wage Accreditation Discount Scheme by providing grants to seven employers claiming their fees totalling £598.50. Other activities undertaken by the group in 2024/25 included co-hosting the annual Lanarkshire Living Wage event in Hamilton during Living Wage Week in November 2024.  As a result of the event one new employer signed up for accreditation and one new employer joined the group.
• As of 31st March 2025, there were 186 employers in SLC that paid the Real Living Wage, which has made an impact on the wage levels of approximately 2,500 employees. The number of employers and employees benefiting from the Real Living Wage is the highest on record and the council has the fourth highest total of the 32 Scottish council areas, after Glasgow, Edinburgh and Highland. 

Real Living Wage - South Lanarkshire Council

Financial Inclusion

• The Financial Inclusion Network (FIN) is led by the Community Engagement Team and brings together various council services and partners with an aim to mitigate the negative impacts of low incomes and financial exclusion on individuals, families and communities. As of 31st March 2025, the network (FIN) has approximately 300 members representing over 70 organisations across South Lanarkshire. The work of FIN is facilitated and delivered via the groups mentioned above.
• The group held a networking event during Challenge Poverty Week in October 2024 at Hillhouse and Earnock Community Centre, which included representatives from approximately 40 organisations (stallholders) ranging from community and voluntary sector organisations to other public sector partners.
• The Community Engagement Team also supports financial inclusion more directly through funding to local services dealing with financial/ debt advice, such as the local Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB). The four CABs in South Lanarkshire together dealt with 9,206 enquiries related to benefits advice during 2024/25 and 2,234 enquiries relating to debt advice. The amount in financial gains secured to clients thanks to the intervention of the CAB’s during 2024/25 includes an estimated £385,000 in savings from Debt Advice and £5.6 million in benefits which might otherwise have been left unclaimed.

Period Poverty

The Community Engagement Team continues to deliver the Scottish Government funded Period Positive initiative across South Lanarkshire. The service makes sure people can access free period products easily, locally and with dignity, including those on low incomes or facing financial pressures. Products are available in community venues, libraries and partner locations, so people can take what they need without having to ask.

During 2024/2025, 59,789 (Increase from 2023/2024) period products were distributed through more than 150 locations across South Lanarkshire, helping to reduce period poverty and support health and wellbeing in our communities. More information on the initiative is including a list of locations is available through the link below

Period Positive

Child Poverty

The latest high-level statistics indicates that child poverty after housing costs in South Lanarkshire has reduced from 23.6% in 2023/24, down to 19.5% in 2024/25 (Source- Child Poverty Action Group/ End Child Poverty Coalition/ Loughborough University, Local Child Poverty Statistics - End Child Poverty). The 2024/25 figures also confirm that the South Lanarkshire rate continues to run below the Scottish average.

The Community Engagement Team and the Community Planning Partnership continue to have responsibility for co-ordinating local child poverty action on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council and NHS Lanarkshire through the Local Child Poverty Action Report (LCPAR). The LCPAR is a regular (annual) statutory reporting requirement placed on the Council and NHS Boards to outline the achievements of local public services to tackle child poverty over the previous year, and to outline plans going forward. Again, the South Lanarkshire LCPAR 2024/25 received positive feedback when reviewed by Public Health Scotland (on behalf of the Improvement Service).

The Local Child Poverty Action group continues to look at ways to tackle child poverty, more strategically, through delivering actions in the three-year Child Poverty Commitment 2023-26. The approach to tackling child poverty in both the LCPAR and the Child Poverty Commitment follows developing dedicated actions linked to the three drivers of child poverty and contributing policies, such as boosting family incomes from maximising access to benefits, alleviating the impact of the cost of living, and creating opportunities to boost income from employment.

• The Community Engagement Team funds the Citizen Advice Bureaux (CAB) in South Lanarkshire to provide support to families with children experiencing financial hardship. Together the four CAB’s provided advice on benefits to 3,276 families with children during 2024/25, an increase of 38% on year 2023/24, and advised 1,518 families with children at risk of fuel poverty, an increase of 5% on year 2023/24.
• Example- ‘Paths away from Poverty’ is a joint project between the council, NHS Lanarkshire and COVEY, set up with the aim improving the lives of families and children living in financial hardship where there is a young person in the household with a disability. The intention of the project is to better understand the relationship between disability and child poverty, and to look at developing successful approaches to tackling child poverty based on that knowledge, principally  through holistic/ family centred models of tailored support, delivered through a dedicated key worker delivery model. The role of the key workers are both to provide wrap around support to the families, acting as an intermediary for the families/ children to access services and benefits, and also as researchers to gather evidence to better understand the barriers faced by the families.
• During 2024/25, the Paths Away From Poverty project provided holistic support to 8 families through regular one-to-one sessions for parents and carers, as well as providing an opportunity for wider peer networking. Through the intervention of project workers, the families who participated in the project were supported to access a range of essential services and amenities, e.g. GPs, Housing providers, family support hubs, DWP, clothing and food banks, Lanarkshire Carers etc, and through this secure financial and wellbeing opportunities that might otherwise have been missed   It is hoped that the lessons learned from the project will act as a template for good practice and innovative approaches towards developing a better understanding of the relationship between poverty and disability that other authorities and public sector agencies will be able to follow, when the project winds up in 2025/26.

Food Poverty

The Community Engagement Team has responsibility with SLC Community resources to take a lead towards alleviating food poverty on behalf of the Council. The team continues to deliver on actions in the South Lanarkshire Good Food Action Plan 2020/25, both through promoting local/community food growing and through supporting emergency free food provision in response to crisis.  Going forward (2025/26 onwards) the responsibility for developing the new South Lanarkshire Good Food Action Plan (2025/30) and the establishment of a new local food partnership will rest exclusively with the Community Engagement Team. 

Actions by the Community Engagement Team to tackle food poverty during 2024/25 include-

• Maintaining support to local foodbanks in South Lanarkshire. During 2024/25 46,038 households received emergency food assistance from the eight food banks, with 85,890 people being fed through emergency parcels during 2024/25, including 58,381 adults and 27,509 children. Local foodbanks also have used cash first approaches as an alternative to food parcels in order to meet demand, with 448 vouchers issued to food bank users buy fresh meat, fruit and vegetables.
• The council funds local Citizen Advice Bureaux (CAB) to provide support to households experiencing food poverty. Together, the four CABs in South Lanarkshire provided help to clients to secure benefits and with on-referrals to foodbanks where needed. Through the intervention of the CABs, 2,725 households were able to access local foodbanks and relief organisations during 2024/25, the CABs also helped clients with 305 applications to the Scottish Welfare Fund for cash payments to cover food and energy costs.

Marmot and Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland (CHES)

In winter 2024, the South Lanarkshire Community Planning Partnership was chosen as only one of three places in Scotland (the others being Aberdeen City and North Ayrshire Councils) to engage in work headed by Sir Michael Marmot, along with Public Health Scotland (PHS) and the University College London Institute of Health Equity (IHE), to create the ‘Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland’ (CHES).  This two-year collaboration between PHS and IHE aims to strengthen and accelerate the action underway to increase community wellbeing, reduce health inequalities and to ultimately improve long-term life chances.  The ‘Marmot approach’ involves reducing health inequity through action on eight key objectives, these are referred to as the Marmot eight principles.  They are to: -  

• tackle discrimination and racism, and their outcomes 
• give every child the best start in life
• enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and control their lives
• create fair employment and good work for all
• pursue environmental sustainability and health equity together
• ensure a healthy standard of living for all
• create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities and  
• strengthen the role and impact of ill health prevention. 

As of 31 March 2025, the Community Planning Partnership has established three groups to take this work forward, a Leadership Group, Marmot Working Group and a Data Group.  Early discussions related to prioritising the areas of Early Years and Child Poverty.  

Further information

Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland - Public Health Scotland

Further information

There are many ways to get involved in your local community and influence the work of the partnership, for example, through volunteering, joining a local action group or making a participation request. If you would like to get involved, email communities@southlanarkshire.gov.uk or phone 0303 123 1017

All Neighbourhood Plans and the Community Plan 2022- 2032 can be found on the CPP website

Community Planning Partnership Annual Outcome Improvement Report 2024-25

South Lanarkshire Volunteering Strategy 2022-24

Shaping Places for Wellbeing-Local Government Improvement Service

Engagement Strategy

More information on our outcomes can be found in the Council Plan Connect and also the Annual Performance Spotlights.

Local Government Benchmarking Framework (LGBF) allows councils to work together, to use performance information in a way which will help understand variations, share knowledge, expertise and good practice, with a view to making improvements. For more information and links relating to this framework go to the 'Benchmarking' paragraph on the Improvement and how we compare page on our website.

The information contained within this report reflects the position for 2024-25 based on the data available at the time of publication (March 2026)