Local Area Agreements 2008-2011

The new Local Area Agreement for Derbyshire was approved by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on30 June 2008

The New Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships published on 11 October 2007 sets out a single set of just 198 indicators representing the key national priorities for local government working alone or in partnership.

The new Derbyshire Local Area Agreement (LAA) will run from June 2008 until March 2011 and consists of 35 priority indicators and 16 statutory education and early years indicators taken from the national indicator set plus two local indicators.

In 2007 Derbyshire was one of 17 local areas chosen to participate in the LAA Feasibility Testing process. Involvement in this process provided a direct opportunity to influence and shape the future direction of LAAs and to identify possible problems and issues in terms of agreeing and negotiating targets in a local area.

The information collected on the priorities for Derbyshire through this process formed the basis of future negotiations in developing the LAA 2008-11. 

Work continued to take place to refine the priority issues previously identified by partners and a workshop was held on 14 December 2007 to further refine these priorities.

Negotiations continued to take place with Government Office for the East Midlands (GOEM) and lead negotiators were identified who were responsible for agreeing targets for each of the next three years.

In addition both statutory and voluntary partners signed up to the indicators and targets where they contribute towards the achievement of those targets.

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government approved the LAA on 30 June 2008 under section 107 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.

The approved new Local Area Agreement and key documents published by Communities and Local Government which provide background, can be found in the more information section below.

Revised governance and constitutional arrangements have been developed for the Derbyshire Partnership Forum (DPF), the DPF Board, the DPF Executive and each of the six thematic partnerships. Read more about Governance June 2008.

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