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About Local Area Agreements 12 th February 2007 Graeme McDonald – Director of Policy & Performance, Ealing Council. What are Local Area Agreements (LAAs)?. · The rhetoric: “The primary objective of an LAA is to deliver better outcomes for local people”. (LAA Guidance, March 2006)
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About Local Area Agreements 12th February 2007 Graeme McDonald – Director of Policy & Performance, Ealing Council
What are Local Area Agreements(LAAs)? ·The rhetoric: • “The primary objective of an LAA is to deliver better outcomes for local people”. (LAA Guidance, March 2006) “To simplify the number of additional funding streams from central government into an area”. (LAA Prospectus, July 2004)
What are Local Area Agreements(LAAs)? An agreement between statutory and voluntary sector organisations in an area (borough) and central government containing: • Mandatory outcomes and indicators (ones we have to include) and, • Optional outcomes, which the local area is free to choose itself after agreement between LSP Partners
What are ‘Stretch’ Targets? • 12 – 14 priority outcomes for improvement, as agreed between partners and government • Carry additional funding: • Pump Priming Grant (Seed corn funding of around £25k pa per target) • Performance Reward Grant (PRG) of around £740k per target, dependent on performance.
What services do Local Area AgreementsCover? Split across four blocks: • Children & Young People • Healthier Communities & Older People • Safer & Stronger Communities • Economic Development & Enterprise
What are the advantages? For central government: • A stronger focus on the delivery of government priorities • Clear delivery chains managed through Government Offices • Reduced costs associated with elimination of bureaucracy – removal of grant claim forms; removal of unnecessary reporting processes; and freeing-up of resources
What are the advantages? For local areas: • Enable real partnership working – pooling of budgets, agreed priorities and removal of conflicting targets. • Focus on local priorities. • Redesigning of services around the needs of customers, breaking down traditional barriers between service providers. • Clearer systems of reporting and managing progress.
How was Ealing’s LAA developed? • All outcomes were matched to the themes and goals of the borough’s Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS). • Only outcomes that specifically served to help deliver the SCS were selected for further consideration. • Block meetings, comprising a broad cross-section of members, honed this “long list” into the shortlist eventually chosen.
How have the VCS been involved? • The Statement of Community Involvement was developed at an early stage with ECVS. • Extensive stakeholder consultation was conducted as part of the development of the SCS. • LSP thematic partnerships discussed and approved the chosen outcomes – each of which have VCS representatives. • Each of the Block Meetings had at least one VCS representative.
How will the VCS have involvement in the Delivery of Ealing’s LAA? • One of the “stretch” targets is being led by ECN (encouraging more volunteers). • Extensive delivery planning has been conducted for each of the LAA outcomes. • ECVS have examined our LAA priorities and suggested to our block leads where the VCS may be able to help us meet our targets. • VCS organisations should discuss how they might wish to contribute to the delivery of the LAA with the appropriate block lead.
LAAs – The Future • From 2008/09, the LAA must become “the embodiment” of a borough SCS. • Targets will begin to become aligned with the 200 new PSAs government are proposing to establish instead of the current 1,200 KPIs across statutory partners. • From 2009/10, the new Corporate Area Assessment will be linked to the outcomes of the LAA.
