Background
In 2007 Derbyshire was one of 17 local areas chosen to participate in the Local Area Agreement (LAA) Feasibility Testing process.Involvement in this process provided a direct opportunity for Derbyshire 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.
A New Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships was published in October 2007. This sets out a single set of 198 indictors representing the key national priorities for local government working alone or in partnership. This national indicator set has been developed as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 so that it reflects Government's national priorities.
From 2008 new LAAs will consist of up to 35 improvement targets, statutory educational and early years targets (taken from the national indicator set) and may also include locally agreed targets.
Updated National Indicator Definitions were published in February 2009 and are available from the link below.
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)
- Developing the future arrangements for Local Area Agreements (382KB)
- Negotiating New Local Area Agreements (197KB)
- Local Area Agreement Dry-run negotiations (540KB)
- The New Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships (878KB)
- Development of the New Local Area Agreement Framework - Operational Guidance (410KB)