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Partnerships & Outside Bodies in Newham

Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs)

Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) bring together a range of organisations from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.

They do this to tackle social exclusion - a combination of unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime, bad health and family breakdown which afflict some of the country's most deprived areas.

The concept of LSPs was introduced by the Government in 2000. Newham's LSP was formed in 2001 around the shared ambition that: "by 2010 Newham will be a major business location and a place where people will choose to live and work."

A central part of the LSPs work is to encourage the main service providers in the borough to work together to produce better outcomes for local residents and to help create sustainable development in the area. The Government, the Council and other service providers are working together to reallocate resources and adapt work programmes to meet these objectives.

REMIT AND PRIORITIES

The LSP has a remit to:

Prepare and implement the Community Strategy
Coordinate local plans and initiatives, improving and simplifying joint working in the borough
Deliver a Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy which will:
- secure more jobs
- provide better education
- improve health
- reduce crime
- provide better housing/physical environment
- narrow the gap between deprived neighbourhoods and the better off neighbourhoods
- contribute to the national targets to tackle deprivation
Help devise appropriate targets for local public service agreements (agreements between the Council and the Government to improve outcomes for local residents more quickly and/or to a higher level than would otherwise be the case)

The LSP has decided to concentrate on the following priorities:

Creating a better environment for all
Making Newham a place where people choose to live and work.

Building an active and inclusive community
Everyone in the borough should have the same chances in life, whatever their background. Newham's population should achieve the same level of education as the national average. They should be healthy with good career prospects and a good quality of life.

Making Newham safer
Crime levels in Newham should be no higher than the London average, ensuring local people feel safer.

Narrowing the health gap
By 2010 the health of local people should be at least as good as that of people in the rest of London.

Business growth and access to jobs
To ensure that Newham's unemployment rate moves in line with the national average by 2006 and that the income of the local population reaches the average for the surrounding area.

Download our Local Strategic Partnership Constitution.

The objects of the partnership are:

To set the overall strategic vision for Newham and to secure partnership commitment and action to delivering the vision
To develop and deliver the community strategy for Newham to meet local needs and priorities
To direct the allocation of the neighbourhood renewal fund to influence mainstream service delivery
To implement and further develop Newham's community strategy
To streamline strategic decision making, ensure community involvement and engagement and to provide effective monitoring to ensure partners policies and plans have desired impact
To work with and support the local authority and other statutory bodies in developing public service agreements and bending mainstream in order to bring about improved public services
To bring about the strategic alignment and integration of plans, partnerships and initiatives within Newham consistent with Partnership aims and objectives.