This page has been created to help you understand phrases used by Local Strategic Partnerships. The definitions below are in addition to the LSP jargon buster
Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs)
LSPs pull together leaders in the public, private and voluntary sectors, along with the local community, to work on agendas to improve local quality of life and ensure that public services work better.
Northern Way
Initiative launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to unlock the potential for further economic growth in the north in order to bridge the output gap between the north and the rest of the UK. The ODPM is now redundant and has been replaced by Communities and Local Government
.
Voluntary Sector Compact
Local compact action plan working within the templates of the Derbyshire Compact.
Neighbourhood Renewal Funding
In the 86 most deprived local authority areas
additional resources have been made available. This is a special grant, which has been made available to those areas to facilitate and underpin changes in the way mainstream budgets
are used to improve services, narrowing the gap between deprived areas and the rest and contribute to achieving sustainable development
.
Match funding
Match funding refers to the finance or commitment put forward as a contribution to the eligible costs of a project and can either come from private or public sources such as central or local government or non-profit making organisations.
Local Area Agreements
LAAs represent a radical new approach to the way local authorities and their partners can use government funding to support the implementation of national and local priorities in local areas. As emphasised in the LAA guidance
, they are agreements struck between government, the local authority and its partners in an area (working through the local strategic partnerships) to improve public services and which focus on a core set of outcomes for the local area.
They will simplify the number of additional funding streams from central government going into an area, help to join up public services more effectively and allow greater flexibility in finding solutions for particular local circumstances.
Local Area Agreements will help devolve decision making and reduce bureaucracy. This should allow efficiency gains and a greater proportion of public servants to be directly involved in front line delivery in every region of the country.
Central government will continue to set high level strategic priorities and targets, but they will need to allow local authorities and their partners to decide jointly which priorities best reflect local circumstances, while still contributing to the achievement of national targets.
There are 4 blocks to an LAA:
- Children and Young People
- Healthier Communities and Older People
- Safer and Stronger Communities
- Economic Development and Enterprise
What progress has been made?
In 2005/06, Local Area Agreements were piloted in 20 areas of the Country, In April 2006 a second round of 66 areas commenced.
The remaining 63 areas will be eligible to have LAAs in place by April 2007.
Super output areas
An Index of Deprivation had been published that breaks down areas into ‘super output areas’ (which are standardised areas smaller than wards.) This will help to identify pockets of deprivation within less deprived areas and may help these areas access funding in the future
Single Regeneration Budget
The Single Regeneration Budget is a flexible funding pot that allows partnerships the option to spend on capital or revenue based items and to run many small projects or a few large ones.
Derbyshire Compact
Arrived at through consultation, this contains principles of how local authorities and the voluntary and community sector could work better.
Some LSPs have signed up to a Compact and these will have a key role in reviewing progress against locally developed action plans. It was thought that Government would continue to push for LSPs to take a lead role and the Derbyshire Partnership Forum could be a mechanism to annually review progress at a county level.
For more information, visit the Derbyshire Compact
page on this website.
Multiple deprivation
The Indices of Deprivation are an important tool for identifying the most disadvantaged areas. They measure multiple deprivation at the small area level and refer to seven Domains
of deprivation:
- Income deprivation
- Employment deprivation
- Health deprivation and disability
- Education, skills and training deprivation
- Barriers to Housing and Services
- Living environment deprivation
- Crime
Regional Development Agencies (RDA)
The RDA Act provides for the establishment of business-led RDA's in each region of England to help further economic development, regeneration and promote business efficiency, investment and competitiveness in the regions.
The six RDAs which include coalfield areas will use their regional strategies to set out their objectives for the regeneration of those areas.
Local Area Agreements
From April this year, some Local Strategic Partnerships and local authorities will be given greater freedom to develop their own solutions to problems, and this will mean that the relationship between Central and Local Government will change. Local Strategic Partnerships will be able to decide how they operate and how they will use the funds given to them by Central Government.
Cleaner Safer Greener Communities
CSG is about creating quality spaces in which people want to live and can be proud - and which others will respect.
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is central to all Government policy and is all about recognising that economic, social and environmental goals cannot be pursued independently. Focussing on just one area can lead to negative impacts on the others or missed opportunities.
Sustainable development is central to all Government policy and is all about recognising that economic, social and environmental goals cannot be pursued independently. Focussing on just one area can lead to negative impacts on the others or missed opportunities.
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