LOCAL AREA AGREEMENT (LAA)

Local Area Agreements (LAAs) were introduced by central government in 2006 and were designed to combine the government’s national standards and priorities with the vision and priorities of local places. Every place in England had an LAA. The Island had two LAAs. The first one ran from April 2006 to March 2008 and the second one from April 2008 to March 2011. The LAAs on the Island were agreements between the Island Strategic Partnership (ISP) and central government. The ISP was made up of representatives from the health service, police, council and voluntary organisations and these bodies worked together to bring about improvements.

Click here to view the Local Area Agreement (2008-2011)

How did the LAA support Eco Island?

The LAA supported the four themes of the Island’s Sustainable Community Strategy (Eco Island):

A Safe and Well-Kept Island
A Healthy and Supportive Island
A Thriving Island
An Inspiring Island

A set of 15 priorities were agreed and in support of these priorities were a number of performance indicators selected from the Government’s National Indicator Set (NIS) to measure achievements.

Our LAA targets included reducing levels of obesity, increasing the number of people stopping smoking, reducing under-18 conception rates and reducing the number of serious road traffic accidents.

 
Partnership Boards were responsible for meeting these targets, however overall responsibility for the Island’s LAA sat with the ISP.

Historical performance reports can be viewed here.

What happened after the LAA finished in March 2011?

In 2010 the coalition government announced its decision to cease LAAs (and the associated National Indicator Set) and removed the associated reward grant. The coalition government also announced a renewed focus on allowing communities to decide what they wanted to report on and, furthermore, announced a reduction in the number of data returns that local authorities were required to submit. A new list of government returns was introduced in April 2011. Further information on the new ‘Single Data List’ can be accessed here.