Local Area Agreements

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Local Area Agreements

• Bronwyn Hill Steve Bone
• Regional Director Assistant Director
• GOSW Poole, Bournemouth, Dorset
  Somerset
• GOSW

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Local Area Agreements

• What is an LAA ?
• Lessons from the pilots
• What could this mean for Poole?

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What is an LAA ?
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The aim

• Local government is a key player in the delivery
  of central government priorities. It is best
  placed to lead the definition of local needs.
• Local Area Agreements try to recognise this dual
  role they are a negotiation of equals, owned
  jointly by central and local government, and that
  should be their strength.
• The Rt. Hon. David Milliband MP
• Minister of Communities and Local
  Government 20 May 2005

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• ..contract between central and local government
  to deliver the priorities of local people
• ..shared objectives delivered through strong
  and inclusive local leadership
• ..freedoms for local partners to work in a more
  joined-up way
• ..minimising bureaucracy and maximising delivery
• ..better outcomes for people and improved public
  services
• ..a healthy dose of local ambition, backed by
  local knowledge and understanding of what works
  best to achieve both local and national
  priorities.

Rt Hon David Milliband, MP Minister of
Communities and Local Government Sir
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart Chairman, LGA
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LAAs and how they fit into the strategy for Local
Government
Citizen engagement participation
Vibrant local leadership
localvision
Service delivery performance framework
A new settlement
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LAAs How they work
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What should local partners aims be?
A variety of aims
A spectrum of ambition
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Lessons from the pilots
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Lessons Learnt

• Support for concept but needs time to develop
• Some confusion and cynicism letting go
• Timetable too short
• Needs stronger project management
• Strong leadership essential (political/LSP/CEx
  and Partners Directors)
• A broad range of aims, aspirations and objectives
• Challenged strength of partnership working
• Being effective and inclusive
• Lack of guidance help or hindrance?
• Policy making on the hoof

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What did the pilots look like?

• All very different!
• The average LAA had
• 25m of pooled funding
• 3 Freedoms and flexibilities
• 50 targets and 60 indicators
• Work in progress
• Detailed funding, targets and indicators to be
  developed

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What could it mean for Poole?
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New developments

• Improved package of support and guidance
• Starting the process earlier
• Stronger project management
• Communication strategy for partners, wider
  groups, the community
• Time for innovative thinking
• LAA Reward Element
• New Economic Development block

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An opportunity to align.

• Shaping Pooles future your vision for Poole
• The Councils own Corporate Strategy
• The strategies and plans of other partner
  organisations

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• What could an LAA look like for Poole?
• An outcomes framework based around four
  blocks
• children and young people
• safer and stronger communities
• healthier communities and older people
• economic development and enterprise
• Cross-cutting themes
• Brings together public service deliver partners
  more effectively to deliver local aspirations
• Builds an effective way of ensuring this happens

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Timetable

• Announced 22 June
• Project plan - end July
• Long list of ideas to GOSW - end September
• Refined short list - end October
• Negotiations - Oct to Dec
• Draft agreements 31st Dec
• Agreements signed end Feb 2006.
• .to start 1 April 2006

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Children and Younger People

• Stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve through
  learning), achieve economic well-being, make a
  positive contribution to society
• Synergy with the Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Examples reducing child poverty and improving
  fitness and health through a more holistic
  approach to employment, childcare, education,
  housing and homelessness and to teenage support
• Child obesity and sexual health egs of link
  across to health strand

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Safer and Stronger Communities

• Reduce crime by 15, reassure the public, reduce
  fear of crime and anti social behaviour, reduce
  harm caused by drugs
• In the pilots many e.g.s of engaging the CVS
  across all blocks through citizens panels,
  community learning networks and groups
  representing interests based on faith, age,
  disability, race, gender and sexuality
• Capacity building will be important. In Dorset
  the Big Lottery was engaged in helping to develop
  the capacity of local groups and community
  organisations
• Think outside the box regeneration and jobs and
  improved housing and a cleaner environment helps
  create safer and stronger

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Healthier Communities and Older People

• Improve health of population, increased life
  expectancy, reduce health inequalities, improved
  quality of life and independence of vulnerable
  older people
• Bending funding streams? Derbyshire, Sheffield
  and Suffolk did a persuasive case to DfES and
  DH for including Child and Adult Mental Health
• Egs of improving
• health in the workplace
• Independence of older people
• Increasing volunteering around older people

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Economic Development

• outcomes around productivity, job creation,
  skills, worklessness, community enterprise, etc.
• Block provides an opportunity to bring into the
  LAA sphere issues around enterprise (and social
  enterprise) which would particularly benefit for
  private sector involvement.
• SWRDA has committed to LAAs

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.and to conclude..

• Dont feel constrained by the blocks
• Think creatively what might be possible across
  blocks
• Success will mean..
• Improved quality of life
• Generation of civic pride
• Services which better meet local needs
• Better alignment of actions by service deliverers
• A way of delivering your community strategy
• BUT
• Please dont try to do everything. Focus on
  where you think LAAs will really be able to make
  a difference.