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Local government as a strategic leader and place-shaper
Communities need strategic leadership to help bring together local partners to improve the services citizens receive and the local quality of life. Issues such as community safety, health, or community cohesion require local authorities to align services provided by a number of agencies in their area. We will put in place a new framework for strategic leadership in local areas, bringing together local partners to focus on the needs of citizens and communities.
Local authorities are already under a duty to prepare a Sustainable Community Strategy which sets the strategic vision for an area. We will now require county and unitary local authorities, in consultation with local partners, to prepare a delivery plan for the strategy - known as a Local Area Agreement.
The Local Area Agreement will set out a single set of priorities for local partners. We will therefore introduce a duty for local authorities and other local partners to work together to agree their priorities. Delivery of local priorities will be the responsibility of partners in key local partnerships like the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, the children's trust and the new health and well-being partnerships. And, once agreed with Government, local partners will be required to have regard to these priorities for improvement.
To find out more, please download the 'Local government as strategic leader and place-shaper' chapter via the link opposite.
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