What Does the Doncaster Together Partnership Do?
The Doncaster Together partnership creates a long-term vision for Doncaster and identifies key priority actions to improve the area and meet local need. The vision and priorities are set out in the sustainable community strategy (SCS). In Doncaster this is called the Borough Strategy.
The Doncaster Together partnership also produces a Local Area Agreement (LAA). The Local Area Agreement is the short term action plan for making the long term vision a reality; it identifies how the priorities will be achieved and it also sets out how success will be measured through different performance indicators and targets.
The govenment sets out the specific role of Local Strategic Partnerships as:
- Exercise a leadership and governing role through identifying and articulating the needs and aspirations of local communities and reconciling or arbitrating between competing interests
- Have oversight of and coordinate community consultation and engagement activities of individual partners and where appropriate combine them
- Produce a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) based on data and evidence from the local area and its population, to establish a shared local vision and priorities for action
- Produce a Local Area Agreement (LAA), based on the priorities identified in the area’s Sustainable Community Strategy
- Have oversight of the planning and alignment of resources in the locality (where relevant to delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategies and LAA) in order to achieve more effective and efficient commissioning and ultimately better outcomes.
- Review and performance manage progress against the priorities and targets agreed in the LAA and ensure delivery arrangements are in place
Further information about Local Strategic Partnerships is set out in the government document 'Creating Strong, Safe and Prosperous Communities: Statutory Guidance'.
