Leicester's Local Area Agreement

Leicester's Local Area Agreement 2008-2011 (LAA) between Leicester and the Government was signed on the 30th June 2008. You can download it at the bottom of this page.

The LAA was the delivery plan to implement the first three years of the city’s sustainable community strategy One Leicester – Shaping Britain’s sustainable city. It was an agreement between the partners in the city and central government which set out our priorities for Leicester and targets for improvement over three years.

The new arrangements for the Local Area Agreement helped to simplify some central funding and monitoring, cut down on bureaucracy, join up public services more effectively and allow greater flexibility for local solutions to local circumstances.  The government wanted to see a shift in emphasis from public bodies being mainly accountable to central government – to being more accountable to local people themselves.

The LAA contained 58 targets that we were committed to achieving in three years. The targets covered a wide range of priorities such as  reducing crime, strengthening communities, improving health, improving skills and educational attainment, getting people into jobs, improving housing, supporting vulnerable people and tackling climate change. And all of the key agencies in the city worked together towards these priorities, using pooled resources and evidence based commissioning of services and programmes.

Click on the link to go to the Government's LAA pages - new Local Area Agreements. 

Contact

Adam Archer

Project Manager, One Leicester Partnership Team
0116 252 6091

adam.archer@leicester.gov.uk