Local Area Agreement (LAA)
A Local Area Agreement is a three year agreement between government and a local area to deliver an agreed set of priorities.The Derbyshire Local Area Agreement (LAA) contains a range of improvement targets which are based on local and national outcomes. It was negotiated by the local authority (in Derbyshire's case, the county council) on behalf of the Derbyshire Partnership Forum (DPF) and the Government Office for the East Midlands on behalf of central government.
Derbyshire's second LAA was developed and agreed by the Derbyshire Partnership Forum between summer 2007 and May 2008, and was formally signed-off by central government in June 2008. The document can be found in the related documents section below.
The agreement is one part of the Delivery Plan that the DPF is using to ensure that the priorities contained in the Derbyshire Sustainable Community Strategy are acted on and real improvements delivered.
Revised governance and constitutional arrangements were developed for the DPF, DPF Board, DPF Executive and each of the six thematic partnerships. Information on these can be found on the Derbyshire Partnership Forum pages.
Each LAA is subject to an annual review. Further information on this can be found using the menu on the left. The annual review leads to the development and approval of a refreshed LAA and the April 2009 and March 2010 versions can be found in the related documents section below.
Annual and quarterly performance reports which give details of progress made towards the achievement of targets agreed within the LAA are available on the how we are doing pages.
Related documents
The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)