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UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT
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“The landscape is changing” – but what do we mean?
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“The landscape is changing” – but what do we mean?
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Local negotiation & choice not national prescription
Councils and their LSPs must plan
• New legal duty on top-tier councils to prepare an LAA alongside the Sustainable Community Strategy
• LAA, LDF, Community Strategy and regional plans should be consistent
But in return…
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Bonfire of Government targetry – LAA only place where council targets will be set
Councils set 35 improvement targets plus 16 mandatory education targets
Targets drawn from national menu of 198 indicators
Councils also set locally designed indicators
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Four suggested themes:
• Children & Young People
• Healthier Communities & Older People
• Safer and Stronger Communities
• Economic Development & Environment incorporating culture
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Four suggested themes:
• Children & Young People
• Healthier Communities & Older People
• Safer and Stronger Communities
• Economic Development & Environment incorporating culture
• But many councils setting own themes!
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• NI 8 Adult participation in sport
• NI 9 Use of public libraries
• NI 10 Visits to museums and galleries
• NI 11 Engagement in the arts
• NI 57 Children and young people’s participation in high quality PE and sport
• Plus local indicators…
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Local Area Agreements pave the way for local authorities to look less to Whitehall for direction and legitimacy, and more to the communities they serve. They provide a dramatic reduction in targets set centrally.
And they put an emphasis on partnership working, because local authorities already know that delivering for the people they serve means working closely with all the organisations - the businesses, hospitals, charities – who play a role in making their area stronger, safer, greener.
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But the reality is complex
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LSPs now have influential role but
•Almost all LSPs are still voluntary
•Many lack adequate officer support
•Relationship building yet to move on to collaborative activity and budget pooling
•Many still “talking shops”
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Lines of accountability and authority remain complex and opaque
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Government ‘Letting go’ means leaving it to local P(p)olitical contexts…
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Structure
•What does this mean?
Teamwork?
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Not teamwork
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If not survival of the fittest – it is survival of
• Negotiators
• Case-makers
• Politickers
• Influencers
• Those who understand the new rules of the game
• So we come to Cultural Champions
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