Sheffield First Agreement
What is the Sheffield First Agreement?
Local Area Agreements (LAAs) are three-year agreements between a local area, represented by the local authority and key partners through the Local Strategic Partnerships and the Government setting out the key priorities and improvement targets for local authority areas.
Our LAA, called the Sheffield First Agreement will be a key mechanism for delivering the priorities set out in the Sheffield City Strategy over the next three years.
New LAAs
From this year all areas now have a new style LAA . Key features of new LAAs include:
- They are fundamentally about performance – the aim is for each area to focus on the priorities that matter most to them and to improve performance on these priorities
- They include up to 35 priority improvement targets drawn from the National Indicator Set of 198 performance indicators.
- Ability to have additional local targets beyond the 35 targets using our own performance indicators
- An additional 16 statutory education indicators covering early years and attainment from Department of Children, Schools and Families are also be included in the LAA.
- There are also duties for specific named partners to co-operate in determining LAA priorities and to have regard to the agreed targets.
Our New SFA
The new SFA is based on the five themes of the City Strategy, namely:
- Strong economy
- Successful neighbourhoods
- Inclusive, healthy communities
- Great place to grow up
- Environmental excellence.
A copy of our Local Area Agreement for 2008-2011 is available for download below. This document is only available in pdf format.
Contact for further information
The Corporate Policy Unit provides co-ordination and support for the SFA within Sheffield City Council. The Corporate Policy Unit can be contacted in the following ways:
Email: cpu@sheffield.gov.uk
Telephone: 0114 273 5015
Corporate Policy Unit
Sheffield City Council
Town Hall
Sheffield
S1 2HH
Sheffield First also have details about the Sheffield First Agreement on their website.
Downloads
This document is our Local Area Agreement which has been agreed with central government (31.1 KB)
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