Glossary
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C
- Children's Trust Board
The Children’s Trust Board is a statutory board which leads on developing opportunities and improving the lives of children, young people and their families in Barking and Dagenham.
- Clean, Green and Sustainable Borough Board
The Clean, Green and Sustainable Borough Board aims to look after and promote respect for the local environment in Barking and Dagenham.
- Community Plan
The Community Plan is Barking and Dagenham’s version of the Sustainable Community Strategy.
The draft ten year Community Plan - Working together for a Better Borough was approved at the Council’s Assembly on 1 April 2009.
The Community Plan sets out the ambitions for the Barking and Dagenham Partnership and how it will work to deliver improvements in the borough. The Community Plan has a 2020 vision and this is translated into priorities.
Supporting the implementation of this plan is the three year Local Area Agreement, agreed with Government in 2008.
- Community Priorities
The Community Priorities are set out in the Community Plan. They were created in response to talking and listening to over 3000 residents in the borough.
The six community priorities are:
1) Safe
2) Clean
3) Fair and respectful
4) Healthy
5) Prosperous
6) Inspired and successful young people
The overall vision for the Barking and Dagenham Partnership is:
‘Working together for a better borough’
G
- Government Office for London
The Government Office for London (GOL) is one of the national Government Offices. GOL act for government across London, represent London in Whitehall and work to improve London’s public services. We work with GOL to agree our Local Area Agreement (LAA).
H
- Health and Wellbeing Board
The Health and Wellbeing Board aims to improve healthy lifestyles, access to health and life opportunities of the residents in Barking and Dagenham.
I
- Improvement Priorities
Improvement Priorities are priorities that we have set out in our latest Local Area Agreement to achieve as a Partnership. Each Improvement Priority is made up of a number of indicators. The LAA Story is a narrative of each of the Improvement Priorities. The Story details the current reality in Barking and Dagenham and what we need to focus on in order to make our borough a better place to live, work and visit.
The Improvement Priorities are as follows:
* Skills and worklessness
* Housing
* A better place to do business
* Children and young people’s life chances
* Health inequalities
* Be safe, feel safe
J
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) 2009
From April 2008 local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have a statutory duty to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). This is used to inform other key documents - the Local Area Agreements and the Sustainable Community Strategy.
The Council, NHS Barking and Dagenham and other partners have been working together to produce this for Barking and Dagenham.
The JSNA establishes the current and future health and wellbeing needs of the local population, which should work towards leading to improved outcomes and reductions in health inequalities by informing commissioning and the development of appropriate, sustainable and effective services.
It was formally agreed and adopted on 12 May 2009.
L
- Local Area Agreement
Barking and Dagenham Partnership Local Area Agreement 2008-2011 with 2009 refreshed indicators
Local Area Agreements (LAAs) are three-year action plans for achieving better outcomes, developed by councils with their partners in local strategic partnerships (LSP).
LAAs for 2008-11 have been agreed with central government and each one has been negotiated with the relevant regional Government Office (in Barking and Dagenham this is the Government Office for London (GOL).
An LAA contains a mix of national and local priorities and targets, relevant to the local area.
LAAs are the main way for central government and local services to work together. They also underpin the national performance framework and its priorities, through which central government measures progress.
- Local Strategic Partnership
A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a non-statutory body that brings together the different parts of the public, private, voluntary and community sectors, to work at a local level. The lead role in the LSP is taken by the local council.
The LSP helps different organisations work together to improve the quality of life in an area and deliver public services more effectively.
The main tasks of the LSP are to oversee the preparation and delivery of the area’s sustainable community strategy (SCS) (in Barking and Dagenham this is the Community Plan) and local area agreement (LAA).
To find out more about the Barking and Dagenham Partnership, please visit About the Partnership.
N
- National Indicators:
A national indicator is a way in which central government can measure how well a local authority is doing in improving a national priority outcome.
* Will be the only measures on which central Government will performance manage outcomes delivered by local government working alone or in partnership
* Replace all other existing sets of indicators including Best Value Performance Indicators and Performance Assessment Framework indicators
* Will be reported by all areas from April 2008.
There is a single set of 198 national indicators which reflect national priority outcomes for local authorities – announced as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007.
To see a list of the national indicators that the Barking and Dagenham Partnership are working towards, please see Our performance.
P
- Public Service Board
The Public Service Board is the executive body of the Local Strategic Partnership.
S
- Safer Borough Board
The Safer Borough Board leads on initiatives that make Barking and Dagenham a safer place for people who live, work and visit.
- Skills, Jobs and Enterprise Board
This is a new board which will have its first meeting in February 2010. Details to follow.
- Stronger Borough Board
The Stronger Borough Board aims to build a strong community by listening to people and involving them so they feel more able to influence decisions and services; by bringing people from different backgrounds together; and by supporting and encouraging people to treat others with dignity and respect.
- Sustainable Community Strategy
The Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) is prepared by local strategic partnerships (LSPs) as a set of goals and actions which they, in representing the residential, business, statutory and voluntary interests of an area, wish to promote.
The local area agreement is the mechanism for making the vision contained in the SCS a reality.
In Barking and Dagenham, the Sustainable Community Strategy is called the Community Plan.