Local Strategic Partnerships

Local authorities are legally required to produce Community Strategies. In order to prepare Community Strategies, local authorities are recommended, but not required to convene and work through a Local Strategic Partnership (LSP).

The Guidance on preparing Community Strategies says that there is no definitive approach to the way in which LSPs should be structured, the bodies that should be represented, or the way in which the LSP should operate. LSPs should be ‘a single coalition of public, private, voluntary and community sector organisations’ LSPs will not necessarily be new partnerships and can be built upon existing arrangements where they exist. Although it will be the local authority’s role to convene the partnership it will not necessarily lead the partnership once it is established. In addition to producing a Community Strategy for the whole local authority area, LSPs are well-placed to produce local neighbourhood renewal strategies.

Local Strategic Partnerships – Government Guidance, DETR 2001 http://www.local-regions.detr.gov.uk/lsp/guidance/pdf/part1.pdf

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