Local Equality

A key principle of the Orkney Partnership is to address the inequalities which persist between communities in different parts of Orkney. The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 requires community planning partnerships to identify areas within their boundaries that experience disproportionate levels of socio-economic disadvantage and develop one or more locality plans to reduce inequality.

The Local Equality Delivery Group's first tast was to develop and lead in the delivery of a new locality for the ferry-linked isles. Some of these communities already have their own local development plans and this Locality Plan does not duplicate these. Instead, it lends support to existing community-led plans wherever the Partnership can add value and improve outcomes.

Locality plan for the ferry linked isles, 2024/26

More information about this priority and how we plan to measure it is available in the Orkney Community Plan 2023/30 available here.