Local Area Agreements Andy Gray Thames Valley Police

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Local Area Agreements Andy GrayThames Valley
Police
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Context

• Local Area Agreements
• Local Area Agreements represent a radical new
  approach to improve co-ordination between central
  government and local authorities and their
  partners, working through the Local Strategic
  Partnership.
• Local Area Agreements a prospectus ODPM 2004

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Local Area Agreements - Concept

• A 3 year agreement between Government, the local
  authority and other partners in an area
• Focused on a set of outcomes that are agreed by
  all as key priorities for the area
• Outcomes to reflect national priorities from PSA
  but also local priorities from community
  strategies etc
• Government lets the local area decide how the
  outcomes are achieved and gives partners
  flexibility to pool budgets.

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LAA split into 4 blocks
Children and Young Persons Economic Development
and Enterprise Healthier Communities and Older
People Safer and Stronger Communities
Local Area Agreement
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Mandatory outcomes Safer and Stronger

• To reduce crime, the harm caused by illegal
  drugs, and to reassure the public, reducing the
  fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.
• To empower local people to have a greater voice
  and influence over local decision making and the
  delivery of services.
• New Mandatory Indicator for April 2007
• To build respect in communities and to reduce ASB

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Local Area Agreements - Funding

• Partners pool budgets and then assign funds
  centrally to meet the targets they have set in
  their LAA.
• This is unlikely to happen in the first year of
  the LAA however and it is more likely that
  budgets will be aligned.

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LAAs - The future

• Phase 1 April 2005 Kent / Brighton Hove
• Phase 2 April 2006 Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire,
  West Berkshire and Wokingham are in the process
  of negotiating their LAAs. They are complete and
  have been submitted for ministerial sign off for
  a start date of 1st April 2006.
• Phase 3 LAAs to be rolled out Nationally by 2007.
• Milton Keynes, Slough, Bracknell Forest,
  Reading, Windsor and Maidenhead start date of
  1st April 2007.

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LAA Performance Management

• Six Monthly reporting
• Annual strategic review of LAA / refresh
• Performance management frameworks being drawn up
  by partners
• Information sharing / performance management
  systems being assessed at this time.

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What is my role in the process? How can I help
you?

• I work for Thames Valley Police HQ and I am
  seconded to GOSE and Bucks CC.
• What can I do to help you?
• I am acting as TVPs link to GOSE and I can ask
  questions on your behalf and give advice. I have
  been involved in the negotiations from both ends.

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• Andy Gray
• Thames Valley Police
• Local Policing
• 07967 446416