Local Area Agreement 2008 - 2011
In 2005 and 2006 the Council, with its partners and the public, came together to agree what kind of place North Tyneside will be by 2030 and to work together to shape the borough toward that vision.
At the centre of this vision is the determination to close the gaps between:
- North Tyneside and the rest of the country
- The lives of people living in our most deprived areas and those living in the rest of the borough.
North Tyneside already has a great story to tell, outstanding educational attainment, magnificent natural assets, easy accessibility to the coast and riverside, improving urban areas and rural areas with a high quality of life. We believe that these opportunities should be open to all, however at the moment those people who live in our most deprived neighbourhoods are experiencing a lower quality of life than the rest of the borough.
To ensure that all people across the borough can share the benefits of North Tyneside’s progress the Sustainable Community Strategy states, that by 2030 “No resident of North Tyneside (should be) disadvantaged simply by where they live”.
We have already made a start in closing the gap; the IMD 2007 showed that over 10,000 people are no longer living in areas that are ranked as the most deprived 20% in the country. However more needs to be done because around 48,000 people in the borough still live in these deprived neighbourhoods. This Local Area Agreement (LAA) will provide a framework for delivering the next stage of the Sustainable Community Strategy.
A sub group of the North Tyneside Strategic Partnership (NTSP) was established to develop this new LAA. The group was made up of the Chief Executives of North Tyneside Council and the Primary Care Trust, alongside the Chief Superintendent of the North Tyneside Basic Command Unit of Northumbria Police.
Alongside prioritising specific indicators that will help to close the gap the group agreed to include targets that will cover two spatial levels, which reflects the two gaps that we are closing. One set is focused at the borough level and the other set is focused on the four most deprived wards of Chirton, Howdon, Riverside and Wallsend.
The LAA has been developed with an understanding of national, regional and local developments, for example all business support services that are provided through existing NTSP funding have been mapped against the national Business Support Simplification Programme so that the enterprise targets within the LAA can be delivered in line with this framework.
