Reshaping the Partnership Landscape

The context for partnership working (and indeed the landscape around it) is
rapidly changing. Alongside substantial cuts in public spending, councils and
their partners are responding to the emerging Localism and Devolution
agenda, the ‘Big Society’, significant Health and Policing reforms, a changing
regional and sub-regional landscape (including the replacement of Regional
Development Agencies with Local Enterprise Partnerships), and the
introduction of Community (Place-Based) Budgets (initially across 16 local
areas) as announced in the Spending Review.

We have also seen, over the last five months or so, the removal of much of the
top down partnership ‘wiring’. There has been a complete scaling back of the
formerly centralist and prescriptive performance and inspection framework with
the abolition of the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA), the end to the
system of Public Service Agreements (PSAs) and, as of the 12th October, the
end of Local Area Agreements (LAAs), along with the demise of the National
Indicator Set.

The Local Government Improvement & Development (formerly the IDeA) have produced a briefing paper called 'Reshaping the Partnership Landscape'.

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