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Local area agreements

The council and its partners have agreed a set of priorities with government. These priorities are contained in our Local Area Agreement (LAA).

A Local Area Agreement is a contract between us, our partners and central government to deliver against the priorities of local people. It involves all partners in the borough agreeing to work together to find better solutions to local issues.

LAA s operate over a three year time scale and involve negotiations with the regional Government Office acting on behalf of government as a whole.  They are not designed to be static documents and can be refreshed every year to ensure that they reflect emerging priorities.

Our LAA document is available on the Improvement and Development Agency website.

Performance management of the LAA will be done via the new Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).  This will measure 198 indicators - including those identified as priorities in our LAA document.