Local Area Agreement

A three-year action plan/agreement between central and local Government to implement national (UK) policy in a particular local authority area. LAAs underpin the national performance framework and its priorities, through which central Government measures progress. Local authorities act on behalf of their local strategic partners in discussions with their regional Government office. Each LAA is negotiated with the relevant regional Government Office, and includes a mix of national and local priorities and targets relevant to the area, often focusing on children and young people, safer, stronger and healthier communities, and older people.

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Calderdale Council and its Calderdale Forward partners were assessed across 14 performance targets under the Local Area Agreement, agreed with central government in 2007.

Help for health projects

With a year left to run in the Local Area Agreement between the council and Whitehall, 44 per cent of an improvement plan for schools, the economy and healthy living is either unlikely to be achieved or in doubt.

CRIME DOWN BUT SCHOOLS LAG BEHIND

Birmingham and the Black Country City Region Board Responsible for delivering the Local Area Agreement with the Government, setting targets for cutting unemployment and improving workforce skills.

Has the region lost its voice? The Government's assault on quangos is welcomed by most people as long overdue but raises questions about the future shape of local government in Birmingham and the West Midlands, argues Public Affairs Correspondent Paul Dale

The cash will be spread over two years after the council and their partners worked together to hit Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets.

Council's pounds 4m reward

Cutting teenage pregnancy is a priority within Coventry's local area agreement and its children and young people's plan but the city has continually missed national targets and has even struggled to hit its own more modest goals.

Teen pregnancies: 'city will improve' CONCEPTION: Health chiefs say they have learnt from decade of errors

The targets are part of a commitment to improve Liverpool's health, wealth and education contained in a Local Area Agreement document signed this week by the city's key agencies.

City in 'brighter future' promise; Liverpool's three-year pledge on health, wealth and jobs EXCLUSIVE

After three months' training, we are able to advise on, and 'youth-proof', a wide range of strategies (including the lovely Local Area Agreement (LAA)--more on that later), train adults in effective youth engagement, run up-skilling courses for youth groups, write for the press and much more.

A day in the life of Marianne Brooker: a Young Advisor at the Young Advisors' Resource Network: Marianne Brooker is a Young Advisor at the YARN, this year's winner of TJ's Best Not-for-Profit Programme Award

The Be Birmingham partnership, made up of the city council and other public bodies, signed a three-year Local Area Agreement with the Government.

Council missing obesity targets

Half-way through the three-year Local Area Agreement (LAA), 48 out of 98 performance targets are unlikely to be met.

Recession blamed for failure to reach health goals

Major documents including the Middlesbrough Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement are available to download.

Partners go online to share strategies

A successful funding bid to the Big Lottery Fund will be used to build the play site and Local Area Agreement funding will be used to build the multi-use games area.

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It has already made tackling the causes and effects of climate change a council plan priority, and the local area agreement includes a target to reduce the CO2 emissions per head of population to 6.6 tonnes by March 2011.

Mayor signs up for climate change target; in association with Environment Agency