Issue - meetings

Review of LAPs and Community Support Arrangements

 

 

Meeting: 07/07/2011 - Sustainable Communities Scrutiny Committee (Item 112)

Review of LAPs and Community Support Arrangements

To receive a presentation from the Performance and Partnerships Manager.

Minutes:

The Committee received a presentation from the Performance and Partnerships Manager on Local Area Partnerships (LAPs) and community support arrangements. 

 

The Committee was advised that LAPs were about people working together in the local area with the focus on getting things done. 

 

LAPs brought together a wide range of people from the statutory, voluntary and community sectors. By working together, they focused collective effort on delivering improved outcomes for local people and places. 

 

Their role was to:

  1.  improve services
  2. ensure people influenced decision making
  3. actively engage and empower communities.

 

There were 7 LAPs in Cheshire East and they varied in population size.  Each LAP had an Area Plan focusing on specific issues within its locality; for example areas of focus in the Congleton LAP included anti-social behaviour and community safety and in Crewe the focus was on environmental projects.

 

RESOLVED: that the update be received.