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Government Office for the East
Midlands
Janet Mills
Head of Third Sector and Stronger Communities
The Role of the Government Office
Joined up
strategy
drives
delivery
Effective
policy
design
Timely local
intelligence
shapes policy
High
quality
delivery
High
impact
regional
strategies
Working at the heart of
place
Supporting delivery of high quality local services
• Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
• 30 Public Service Agreements
• Departmental Strategic Objectives
Local Government White Paper
Offers:
a stronger role for local
authorities to lead their
communities, shape their
areas, and innovate in
response to local needs
In exchange for:
more bottom-up
accountability, better and
more efficient services and
tougher intervention when
things go wrong
What’s new about Local Area Agreements?
CSR 07
Govt Priorities
(PSA targets)
INFLUENCE
Development of national
indicator set (200 max by 2008/09)
Reported by localities
Reporting frequency
Spatial Tag
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Informs
Additions, removals & changes
over time
Improvement targets
informed by:
SCS
GO knowledge of locality
Existing LAA
CAA (risk assessment)
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Scrutiny, annual review, support
•
Education and
Children’s
statutory targets (18)
Locally agreed priorities
Negotiated Improvement
Targets (35
max)
LAA
Representation of principal relationships in
the new local performance framework
Source: CLG–LGA Joint Working Team
National Indicator 6
Participation in regular volunteering
average
% of LAAs where indicator 6 is proposed (A/B/C/L)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
NE
NE
67%
NW
NW
50%
YH
YH
33%
EM
EM
44%
WM
EE
L
SE
SW
S27
TG
WM
29%
EE
50%
L
45%
SE
37%
SW
44%
S27
41%
TG
50%
All
44%
National Indicator 7
Environment for a thriving Third Sector
average
% of LAAs where indicator 7 is proposed (A/B/C/L)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
NE
NE
42%
NW
NW
59%
YH
YH
60%
EM
EM
56%
WM
EE
L
SE
SW
S27
TG
WM
36%
EE
80%
L
33%
SE
47%
SW
75%
S27
41%
TG
50%
All
51%
Third Sector Policy Context
•
Expand the role of the third sector in the delivery of publicly funded and advice
services
•
Empowerment White Paper
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Regenerating deprived neighbourhoods, supporting people into work and encouraging more
enterprise and social enterprise
Encouraging more people to get involved in building stronger local democracy
Improving local public services by increasing the involvement of people who use them
Strengthening the accountability of public agencies to local people
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Cohesion
•
Regeneration
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Tackling worklessness
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Countering extremism
Challenges and Opportunities
• Persuading agencies that commission public services to
engage with the third sector
• Supporting the third sector to build capacity
• Involving the Third Sector in local decision making
• Ownership