9. Appendix B: Scottish Government internal review RAG Status and Comments for

Outlined below are two case studies of local actions being taken forward that contribute to the outcomes, but have not been mentioned elsewhere. These case studies are included to evidence the ways in which specific actions are being taken forward at a local level that can clearly be seen to have target outcomes that contribute to improving the outcomes in the CRS.

Case Study - Pre-employability – PEC Project

The main aim of the project is about tackling the barriers that prevent people preparing or looking for work. Focusing on the “economically inactive” and, without the sole aim of achieving job outcomes, PEC offers solutions to the pre-employability issues that may deter people from considering work and helps them move towards employment. Often circumstances mean the economically inactive are too far removed from the job market to take part in traditional employment programmes.

PEC takes people on the journey to work by offering personal support and a wide range of services such as trauma support and counselling, literacy, numeracy and digital skills, travel support and a range of training options including key soft skills as well as access to local work placements. Bringing partners together to adopt an innovative, personcentred, agile approach played a crucial role in the early success of the project.

Recent figures from PEC show that in the first five months of delivery, 250 people have been supported through the project, several of whom have gone on to further education and 28 participants are now in employment.

Case Study: Money Counts

The “Money Counts” training programme was developed to support staff in the NHS, and Partner Organisations to ask people about financial worries and signpost them to a source of support.

The training is available to anyone who might, in the course of their work, have a conversation about money and aims to increase skills and confidence to ask about money matters. The training focuses on four outcomes:

• Increase understanding of poverty and its impact; • Increased confidence to ask about money worries; • Increase knowledge of support services for money matters; and • Increase knowledge of poverty sensitive practice.

The Money Counts training is delivered by the Health Improvement Team, supported by Social Security Scotland and FareShare/Cfine.

Since March 2020 there have been 28 tier one and two courses delivered. The response from services has been decisively positive.

While the examples cited above are actions that can clearly be linked to impacting on the CRS outcomes, numerous examples have also been identified where actions are being undertaken that do not clearly align to the CRS outcomes. Two examples are cited below that are actions being undertaken locally to address Digital Inclusion and the move to Net Zero. The case studies presented here are not intended as a commentary on the success or importance of the projects or the outcomes that they achieve, and are presented here to highlight that not all large-scale actions being taken locally align with the CRS. They are also presented in the context of actions relating to Net Zero representing a key strategic priority in other national strategies or interventions, such as the Programme for Government.

Case Study: Local Full Fibre Network and Rural Broadband

A Council through funding from Tay Cities Deal (£0.5m) and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (£0.707m) have used the LFFN programme to provide 30.6km of ultrafast fibre connectivity (speeds of up to 1Gbps) within the council, connecting 52 Council Buildings & Schools to reliable and fast internet connectivity. The project which was awarded to BT allowed Openreach to upgrade the infrastructure (within the area of these council buildings & Schools) using their Full Fibre Infrastructure Build (FFIB) model. By connecting the council buildings and schools, the Council committed to be the anchor tenant to allow the project to proceed. The fibre infrastructure benefits not just the council but also local residences and businesses.

Through separate funding from Tay Cities Deal (£0.5m) and in association with SmartRural (Farmers’ Co-Operative) work has started on installing a core wireless infrastructure in rural locations (installed on farm buildings) that can be used by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) to connect rural premises to fast and reliable internet connectivity.

Case Study: Building Management Systems to drive energy reduction

Since 2019, one Council have been rolling out a leading Building Management System (BMS) with over 80 sites with heating, hot water and ventilation controlled remotely via Siemens Desigo CC. With the BMS, the council are able to set internal temperatures and time schedules. Heating schedules are also seasonally, allowing substantial savings through the shoulder seasons and other seasons. The aim is to have over 100 sites connected remotely by 2024.

The benefits of this include:

• Full remote control, reducing the need for site visits. • Amended software at sites helps plant run more efficiently. • Provides maintenance and compliance teams with reports and alarm functions • Easier to upgrade sites - installing more room sensors, connecting on site plant through Desigo instead of having independent role, and set up trend logs to allow performance tracking.