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Local Area Agreement

Our Local Area Agreement [PDF 214KB]  sets out priorities for Brighton & Hove. It has been agreed with all the city’s partner organisations, and with central Government.

Over the past few years, the public, private and voluntary sector organisations in Brighton & Hove have come together in partnership to plan for the city’s future and deliver better, more joined-up services. Our first Local Area Agreement, signed in 2005, was a sign of that shared commitment. In preparing the new agreement for 2008-11, we have a strong basis for further and deeper collaboration.

  • In strategic planning, partnership working has bedded down, and the future shape of the city is being guided by all those with the ability to influence it, whether from the public, private or third sectors.
  • As service providers, we are all engaged in a new drive towards efficient, cost-effective services for the city as a whole.
  • In supporting the most disadvantaged, the case for personalised, tailored support has been revealed by the Reducing Inequality Review, showing that - despite the economic growth of past decades – the city still has areas of severe disadvantage.

We will not deliver on the city’s potential unless we act together, and this three-year plan is the first step towards our new approach.

The transformations that are needed achieve these goals will not happen overnight. They will not happen over the course of this three-year plan. They are, however, a shared ambition towards which we will work over the coming years, and which will be reflected in the twenty-year Sustainable Community Strategy when it is revised in 2009.

In signing this document, we have committed to taking forward our work together and to five principles for our partnership work over the next three years. We will:

  • provide personalised services and solutions for all who need them
  • empower people and communities, whether they identify themselves through shared interests or a shared sense of place
  • build a strong, sustainable economy
  • reduce people’s vulnerability through prevention and early intervention
  • provide seamless services

And we agree that we will:

  • direct our activity towards the goals set out in this agreement
  • work in partnership across the city on all issues of common concern, and
  • work together in new ways to deliver this plan

Please read the Local Area Agreement Cabinet Report December 2009 for more detail regarding progress


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