Southwark'S LAA
Local Area Agreements (LAAs) are three-year agreements between central government and a local area, which set out the social, economic and environmental priorities for the area in the form of performance indicators and targets. The Council has a duty to prepare a LAA and in fulfilling this duty must seek to achieve collective consensus through the Local Strategic Partnership.
Southwark is currently negotiating a new LAA that will run until 31 March 2011. This is expected to contain 35 indicators chosen from a new national indicator set plus 16 Mandatory Education and Early Years indicators. The LAA can also include local indicators, agreed by partners, which address Southwark 2016 / LAA priorities that are not covered by national indicators.
The priority areas of the LAA are based on Southwark 2016 and key partnership strategies.