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The government is encouraging the formation of LSP’s with the aim of providing us with better services, especially in areas with poor housing, high unemployment and high levels of ill-health: in the jargon of politicians ‘areas of multiple deprivation’. Areas receiving certain types of government grants and funding must have a fully functioning, accredited LSP - Great Yarmouth falls into this category. The Great Yarmouth LSP brings together, at a local level:
The purpose of the LSP is to help agencies to work together in order to make the best decisions about services in their area and to help them contribute to meeting government targets in health, housing, the environment, learning, crime and employment. Meeting these targets requires that agencies work together as problems can be complex, ill-health, for example, is a medical problem but it can be caused by living in a damp house or by not having the money to buy healthy food. The LSP brings people together to create a ‘joined-up’ approach to services and to allow the views of the wider community to be heard. It is also responsible for approving the spending of various grants, for example Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) Great Yarmouth and its LSP In April 2004, the LSP was subjected to a Performance Management Framework (PMF) exercise by GO-East rather than the annual accreditation process. The purpose, however, was the same: to assess the LSP’s ability to continuously improve its performance against a given set of criteria against which all 88 of the NRF-funded LSP’s are measured. Great Yarmouth’s LSP has been given an “AMBER/GREEN” traffic light rating. This means that whilst it has achieved a great deal in terms of its ability to deliver improvements in services in the deprived neighbourhoods, it still needs to improve, more quickly, in other areas. Primarily this requires the statutory organisations on the LSP to understand the role, and work closer with, the voluntary and community sectors which are represented on the LSP. Again in April 2004, changes to the structure of the LSP were introduced with the aim of improving the overall performance of the Partnership. The new structure is shown in the following chart.
Click the image above to open a popup window with a larger image. You can find out more about the LSP by going to our publications page where you will find the relevant strategies, action plans and other documents relevant to Neighbourhood Renewal. LSP Officer c/o Safer Communities Team Tel: 01493 333372
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