Local Strategic Partnership

Blackburn with Darwen's Strategic Partnership (LSP) is the Borough's largest and most influential partnership body. It's an overarching partnership body for the whole Borough. It's made up of representatives from the Council, other public sector organisations (like the health and police services), business, and the voluntary, community and faith sectors.

The aim of the LSP is to 'bend' the mainstream funding provided by those different organisations and services and to present a co-ordinated approach. Its particular focus is to promote the achievement of the Local Area Agreement’s four key priorities for 2008-2011; namely:-

1. Improving the local economy
    
2. Building stronger, safer communities
    
3. Improving educational achievement
    
4. Improving health and well being.

It is also more widely responsible for promoting the Borough’s Sustainable Community Strategy. This includes not only the Local Area Agreement priorities, but also those identified in the Community Plan’s 2020 Vision and the Area Plans which are developed annually for each of the five neighbourhoods in Blackburn with Darwen.

LSPs have the freedom to decide their own structure- to choose a partnership structure and way of working that suits individual partners and that can be changed to meet altering circumstances. These are summarised in the Local Strategic Partnership structure chart.

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