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by Anne Laing (PDM)
12 April 2011
At its January meeting the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) looked at what it would offer in a new era where other partnerships and bodies are emerging to meet specific agendas. Some of those bodies like the Local Enterprise Partnership have formed but are only just beginning to address their Berkshire wide economic agenda, whilst another such as the Health & Wellbeing Partnership Board is embryonic, its area of responsibility not yet clear, but will begin to emerge as a key partnership later in the year.
Meantime, the LSP holds together a very beneficial partnership still able to bring together local decision makers to debate and agree the key priorities where partnership working adds real value to the work of mainstream agencies.
The March Board meeting began the process of looking anew at how it should do that and who would need to be at the table. It agreed that a wider partnership invite to workshops that would precede Board meetings and ensure that wider partners, including Forum Voices as well as topic specialists could contribute new thought and opportunities. These changes meant there was less need for the 13th optional seat, previously held by the BME representative, and which was now under some pressure as other special interest groupings were seeking a place. The workshop discussions could formulate key priority recommendations. The Board members were keen to ensure that they were enabling equal access for all interest groups and took seriously their responsibility to be inclusive.
The key priorities for Reading’s LSP are expressed in the Sustainable Communities Strategy and can be seen on the Reading 2020 Partnership webpage
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