The North Yorkshire Local Area Agreement (LAA) is the three year 'deal' between the main public sector agencies in the area, other partners and central Government to improve services and the quality of life in North Yorkshire.

 

The Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) for North Yorkshire 2008/18 sets out the overarching strategic direction and long-term, sustainable vision for the economic, social and environmental well-being of North Yorkshire. It is based on consultation with local people, about the sort of place they want the area to be and has been developed by the North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership (NYSP). The LAA is based on the priorities in this Strategy and translates these priorities into targets to secure the improvements that local people want to see.  As such, the LAA is the delivery mechanism for the SCS.

The targets in the North Yorkshire LAA 2008/11 are focused on a limited set of designated targets, drawn from the National Indicator Set (NIS), 10 statutory education and early years targets prescribed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and a number of local non-designated targets that have been drawn from the NIS or locally determined.

 

Local partners (members of the NYSP) have committed themselves to delivering these targets and are under a new duty to co-operate in doing so (Local Government and Public Involvment in Health Act 2007).