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Sligo Rapid Programme

A Focus On Disadvantage

Vision:  “To work together with a common purpose to eliminate disadvantage within the five RAPID areas of Sligo”

The RAPID Programme in Sligo is co-ordinated at a local level by Bridie Conway based in the Community & Enterprise Department and an Area Implementation Team comprising of the following agencies – FAS, Dept Social & Family Affairs, Sligo LEADER Partnership Company, North Western Health Board, Sligo Education Centre, Sligo Borough Council, Gardai, Mayor and three community representatives representing the RAPID areas. The remit of the Area Implementation Team is to take responsibility for the planning and implementation of the programme locally. The Programme is monitored by the City/County Social Inclusion Measure group to ensure that all plans developed are fully integrated with the CDB and agency strategies.

Achievements of Sligo RAPID Programme – 2003

The RAPID Programme in Sligo over the past year has achieved many tangible and intangible results through the work and commitment of the Area Implementation Team to developing the programme at a local level.

• A Local Area Action Plan has been developed and submitted nationally. This plan involved a comprehensive needs analysis undertaken in consultation with the local communities, including in-depth profile of the five selected areas in Sligo.

A number of key issues have been identified:

• High Levels unemployment
• Early School leaving
• Lack of affordable accessible childcare facilities
• High-level welfare dependency
• Quality of housing stock
• Increasing levels of anti-social behaviour
• Absence of adequate youth facilities
• Lack of sport & recreation facilities

The Area Implementation Team is now at the implementation stage, with primary attention focused on improving and building on existing service delivery within RAPID areas and new investment.

There is evidence of enhanced agency/community working, information sharing, networking, increased service co-ordination and of local agencies prioritising their resources to RAPID areas.

Sligo RAPID Programme has developed a Best Practice Agency Participation Model – The RAPID National Monitoring Committee has adopted this model at national level.