Scottish Ambulance Services
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) plays a vital role in collaboration with Falkirk Community Planning Partnership. As areas primary provider of emergency medical services, SAS works closely with local authorities, health boards and other partners to ensure that communities receive high-quality and responsive emergency care.
As a Community Planning Partner, SAS is involved in developing and implementing plans and strategies that address local health needs and promote community well-being. This includes the genuine collaboration with other agencies to provide preventative services, such as community-based health programs, and responding to emergency situations, such as natural disasters and pandemics.
Through its partnerships and collaborations, SAS will contribute to a coordinated and effective approach to Falkirk community planning and emergency response, helping to build stronger and more resilient communities across the area and we are looking forward to making a real difference and making things happen for our communities.
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Forth Environment Link
FEL is an environmental charity, based in Forth Valley, showing people how to make everyday changes that help them, their communities and the planet. We make social and environmental change happen and are experts in helping communities live more sustainably.
Our projects make ‘the environment’ meaningful by making it personal. Our work focuses on walking, cycling & wheeling; food and growing; and sharing & reuse.
We support the principles of community wealth building and living well locally within the context of the region’s net zero ambitions.
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Skills Development Scotland
SDS contributes to Scotland’s sustainable economic growth by supporting people and businesses to develop and apply their skills.
Key areas of our work include skills planning, delivering Scotland’s careers service, administering Scottish Apprenticeships, and support for employers.
We deliver Scotland’s career service in schools, in SDS centres, through our Helpline (0800 917 8000), and online at www.myworldofwork.co.uk
No matter what stage a customer is at in their career, support is available through our professionally qualified experts.
There is enhanced support for adults on My World of Work, information for parents and carers, as well as tools to help Armed Forces service leavers, veterans, and their families.
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NatureScot (formally Scottish Natural Heritage)
NatureScot is Scotland's nature agency. We work to enhance our natural environment in Scotland and inspire everyone to care more about it.
We work with partners across the public sector, and with communities, businesses and the environment sector to support our priorities of achieving a nature-rich future for Scotland and an effective response to the climate emergency.
Our work seeks to support the Falkirk Plan's ambition of delivering social, economic and environmental benefits by making Falkirk a sustainable and resilient place to live, work and play.
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Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership
Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership is the local integration body, delivering community adult social care and health services.
Bringing together a diverse workforce from across Falkirk Council, NHS Forth Valley, and local partners in the third and independent sectors, the Partnership supports people to live independently within their community.
Its services and support options include long-term community care, mental health, alcohol and drug recovery, dementia, sensory services, physical rehabilitation, learning disability services, district nursing, and unpaid carer support.
The Partnership’s Board, known as the Integration Joint Board, has responsibility for the planning, resourcing, and operational oversight of services.
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Forth Valley College
Forth Valley College is a leading provider of further and higher education offering a wide range of courses and training opportunities. They welcome 14,500 students per session with 94% of learners progressing to further studies or employment.
They offer state-of-the-art campuses in Alloa, Falkirk and Stirling. Their provision ranges from access to degree level and includes full-time and part-time courses, evening classes, flexible learning, vocational qualifications and business training courses.
The College works closely with a range of partners to ensure they are delivering opportunities which meet the needs of learners, employers, local communities and national skill agendas.
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Police Scotland
Police form part of the Community Planning Partnership where we work with our strategic partner agencies in order to effectively contribute to the Local Outcome Improvement Plan, ‘The Falkirk Plan 2021-2030’.
This plan has been developed in partnership and in response to our statutory obligations set out under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
This work strives to ensure better outcomes for communities in Falkirk in line with the six themes within the plan. Falkirk Police have made a commitment to deliver on the outcomes, priorities and the manner with which we will achieve these.
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NHS Forth Valley
NHS Forth Valley provides local hospital and community-based health services across three councils areas, including Falkirk Council. We work closely with a wide range of partners, community groups, patients and their families to prevent ill health, improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
We are also committed to using our role as a major employer, buyer of goods and services and owner of land and buildings to benefit the wider health, wellbeing and economic recovery of the local communities we serve.
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Scottish Fire & Rescue
SFRS work in partnership with our communities and with our partners in the public, private and third sectors on prevention, protection and response to improve the safety and wellbeing of people throughout Falkirk.
We firmly believe the best way to manage any type of emergency is to prevent it from happening in the first place. With a key focus on prevention, particularly in support of the most vulnerable members of society, we work with our partners across Falkirk to deliver: fire safety campaigns; prevention interventions; and work on a wide range of public safety initiatives that keep people and businesses safe.
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CVS Falkirk & District
CVS Falkirk & District is recognised by Scottish Government and Falkirk Community Planning Partnership (CPP) as the Third Sector Interface for the Falkirk area.
We are a local, independent charitable company which exists to promote, develop and represent the third sector and volunteering.
We have a primary role in ensuring the continuation and development of a vibrant third sector (charities, social enterprises, community and voluntary groups) in Falkirk.
We facilitate a range of thematic third sector forums and networks which contribute and align to the work of the CPP and Falkirk Plan.
We participate and contribute to the CPP Board, Partnership Groups and Thematic Working Groups. We Co-Chair both Empowered Communities Group, Community Wealth Building Partnership as well as the Outcomes Coordination Group.
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