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The Local Government White Paper Strong and Prosperous Communities published in October last year set out fundamentally different arrangements for Local Area Agreements.
Our ambition is for LAAs to provide local authorities and partners with the flexibility and capacity to deliver the best solutions for their areas through a reformed relationship between central and local government.
New LAAs will no longer be an add-on to the multiple national performance frameworks under which local authorities operate - they are replacing them.
The new arrangements are based on a stronger role for local authorities to lead their communities, shape their areas and with other local service providers to innovate and respond to local needs.
This vote of confidence in LAAs will see them fulfil the ambitions voiced by many in local government from the time of their original conception.
For more information on anything in this section of the website, or to provide feedback, please contact laa@communities.gsi.gov.uk.
