1. Government Office for the East Midlands Janet Mills Head of Third Sector and Stronger Communities

2. The Role of the Government Office Timely local intelligence shapes policy Effective policy design High quality delivery High impact regional strategies Working at the heart of place Joined up strategy drives delivery

3. Supporting delivery of high quality local services Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 30 Public Service Agreements Departmental Strategic Objectives

4. Local Government White Paper Offers: a stronger role for local authorities to lead their communities, shape their areas, and innovate in response to local needs In exchange for: more bottom-up accountability, better and more efficient services and tougher intervention when things go wrong

5. What’s new about Local Area Agreements? Development of national indicator set (200 max by 2008/09) Reported by localities Reporting frequency Spatial Tag CSR 07 INFLUENCE Informs Improvement targets informed by: SCS GO knowledge of locality Existing LAA CAA (risk assessment) Additions, removals & changes over time Education and Children’s statutory targets (18) Locally agreed priorities LAA Negotiated Improvement Targets (35 max) Govt Priorities (PSA targets) Scrutiny, annual review, support

6. Representation of principal relationships in the new local performance framework Source:CLG–LGA Joint Working Team

7. National Indicator 6 Participation in regular volunteering

8. National Indicator 7 Environment for a thriving Third Sector

9. Third Sector Policy Context Expand the role of the third sector in the delivery of publicly funded and advice services Empowerment White Paper –Regenerating deprived neighbourhoods, supporting people into work and encouraging more enterprise and social enterprise –Encouraging more people to get involved in building stronger local democracy –Improving local public services by increasing the involvement of people who use them –Strengthening the accountability of public agencies to local people Cohesion Regeneration Tackling worklessness Countering extremism

10. Challenges and Opportunities Persuading agencies that commission public services to engage with the third sector Supporting the third sector to build capacity Involving the Third Sector in local decision making Ownership