Annual Review and Refresh of Norfolk's Local Area Agreement

The Annual Review of the Norfolk LAA took place on 10 November 2009 at the meeting of the Norfolk County Strategic Partnership Management Group.  Overall, the findings were positive with a number of areas of good progress and best practice being identified by GO East.  This includes;

• Establishment of local multi-agency migrant worker forums

• Participatory budgeting and the Multi-agency Hate Crime Agreement

• The work of the Norfolk "Virtual School" for Looked After Children

• Comprehensive Risk Assessment of the impacts of climate change locally

• Norfolk Youth Offending Team gender specific interventions.

Annual Refresh

The Annual Refresh of the LAA takes place in January and February of each year.  It enables our Agreement to be amended in response to any unforeseen circumstances, such as the economic recession or new regulatory arrangements.

With only one more year to go within our three year agreement, this year's refresh will be a ‘light touch'.  We will be considering amendments to only a small number of the economic and housing indicators and setting some targets for 2010/11.

The refreshed LAA will be submitted to GO East for ministerial sign off in mid-March 2010.  Once the refresh has been completed, discussions about the content of the third LAA will begin.  2010/11 will be the last year of the current LAA.   

For further information, please contact Daniel Harry on 01603 222568 or daniel.harry@norfolk.gov.uk.