Local Area Agreements

Local Area Agreements are a Government regime designed to improve local services by strengthened partnership working. Agencies such as Local Authorities, Health, the Voluntary Sector and the Police – agree to pool their budgets and join up services in a number of key areas known as blocks.

The four blocks are:

Children and Young People

Safer and Stronger Communities

Economic Development and Enterprise

Healthier Communities and Older People

There are a range of cross cutting themes identified in LAAs too, for example Norfolk states cross cutting themes as:

• Reducing inequalities - 'narrowing the gap'

• Tackling poverty

• Building community cohesion

• Delivering sustainable communities

• Supporting the rural dimension

The Agreements are brokered at a county level through sub-regional arrangements.  They will run until 2009.  They were signed by the Government by the Rt Hon David Miliband MP, then Minister of State for Community and Local Government, on behalf of:

• The Treasury

• The Officer of the Deputy Prime Minister

• Department for Education and Skills

• The Home Office

• Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

• Department of Transport

• Department for Health

• Department for Trade and Industry

• Department for Work and Pensions

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Download summaries of the eight Local Area Agreements for our region, and a document outlining the background to Local Area Agreements and their implications for the Artsgenerate programme.