Bromsgrove Partnership - Local Strategic Partnership
What is a Local Strategic Partnership
(LSP)?
LOCAL - The Government does not specify what it
means by "local", but it wants Partnerships to be large enough to
operate on a strategic level and make decisions, but small enough
to be able to link with local neighbourhoods.
STRATEGIC - LSPs have a role in thinking
long-term about the problems and issues in an area. In
partnership with local people they should consider priorities and
objectives and then line up resources to meet those objectives.
PARTNERSHIP - LSPs bring together local
authorities - members and officers - the business sector, the
voluntary sector, service providers outside local authorities
(health, police, housing associations etc) and local communities
into a partnership that can address the long-term needs of a
defined geographical area.
What is the Bromsgrove Partnership?
The Bromsgrove Partnership is the LSP for the District of
Bromsgrove.
The Government required local strategic partnerships to be
formed to align with local authority boundaries. An LSP is a
single body that:
- brings together at a local level the different parts of the
public sector as well as the private, business, community and
voluntary sectors so that different initiatives and services
support each other and work together;
- is a non-statutory, non-executive organisation; and
- operates at a level which enables strategic decisions to be
taken and is close enough to individual neighbourhoods to allow
actions to be determined at community level.
What does it do?
The Bromsgrove Partnership:
- Acts as the over-aching, co-ordinating partnership, ensuring
that links are made between the locally themed partnerships;
- Takes responsibility for cross-cutting issues that have been
identified as critical to the locality;
- Ensures that district level plans, such as the Sustainable
Community Strategy and Local Development Framework, take account of
countywide priorities; and
- Ensures that district level priorities are considered and,
where appropirate, reflected at a county level i.e. through targets
in the Local Area Agreement (LAA).
A copy of the
Bromsgrove Partnership Annual Report for 2008-09
is available to
download.
What is the Sustainable Community Strategy?
Please use the following link for information on the Sustainable Community Strategy.
What is the Local Area Agreement?
Please use the following link for information on the Local Area Agreement.
