Published in March 2010, this Framework sets out ways to build the third sector in Calderdale over the next five years. It brings together a number of key initiatives and gives proposals on the way forward.

The Compact aims to improve the way that partners work together to contribute to improving the social, economic and environmental well- being of everyone who lives in, works in and visits Calderdale.

The Toolkit is designed to help organisations, partnerships or service areas work in accordance with the Calderdale Compact, by helping partners to identify where partnership working can be improved, and what actions can be taken to improve it.

You should share the information in the Toolkit throughout your organisation, making sure that everyone who is involved with partnership working is aware of the Compact, and what it means for them. The Toolkit also contains information on what you can expect from partners, and information on how you can get help to implement the Compact in your organisation.

Further information may be available from either :

Sheri Wardell on  01422 392317 or Soo Nevison on 01422 348777.

This is the first annual report from the Council’s five scrutiny panels. It provides information about scrutiny in Calderdale, reviews highlights of the work of the panels over 2008/09 and looks at future developments. Contact details are provided at the end of the report.

This document will provide answers to some of the frequently asked questions about Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) in Calderdale.

This is the first refresh of the three year Children and Young People’s Plan

(CYPP) 2008 – 2011 produced by the Children’s Trust. The refresh takes the Trust one year on, with updated plans for 2009 – 2010 to further improve the lives of children and young people in Calderdale.

Calderdale's second Local Area Agreement (LAA2) is a 3-year programme running from 2008 to the end of March 2011. This report shows performance achieved against targets, at the end of the first year.

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/consultations/jsna/index.html

The Calderdale Place Survey 2008 Briefing on National Indicator Results provides the provisional data for the eighteen National Indicators (NIs) whose source is the Place Survey.  Comparison with previous data is available for some of the questions in the Place Survey, where these have been included in previous national surveys (e.g. Best Value Performance Indicators or previous Local Area Agreement surveys). Four National Indicators that are in Calderdale’s Local Area Agreement are shown in bold. These are NI 1, NI 4, NI 17 and NI 138.

A detailed Report has been commissioned and will include information about how findings compare with other Districts and with previous results.  This comparative data is not yet available; latest information is that it will be released in June.

The results provided are the provisional results weighted by the Audit Commission to reflect the population of the District. (Weighting is undertaken to ensure that the opinions of under-represented groups are fully reflected in the overall results.) 

All Local Area Agreements in the country that were approved by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in July 2008 have been subject to a ‘review and refresh’ process since October 2008.  The aim of this two-stage process was to tie up loose ends and fill in the gaps in the July 2008 Local Area Agreement.

On the basis of progress made in delivering the LAA, the availability of new data and new information regarding national performance, further negotiation with Whitehall through Government Office took place from January to March 2009.  The outcome of these negotiations has been the refreshed LAA, approved by the Council in March and by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government at the beginning of April.

The approved Refreshed LAA can be found below.

Halifax is one of nine areas across England participating in the Government’s Healthy Towns Initiative, a key part of the national ‘Healthy Weight Healthy Lives’ strategy and Change4Life campaign.  The aim is to get people moving more and eating well. A Commissioning workshop has taken place and projects will be commissioned from April. To find out more information click below.

The Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA) and the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) supported a Partnership Improvement Programme (PIP) for Calderdale.

PIP is designed to improve cross-sector partnership working between local authorities and local voluntary and community organisations (VCOs). 

For more information about the aims of PIP, please click below, or contact the LSP Support Team.

The ‘reward element’ is additional money from central government for LSPs, for the achievement of specific challenging targets. Calderdale’s first Local Area Agreement (LAA1) included 14 Reward Element Indicators. These were three year targets, eligible for payment of performance reward grant should the targets be achieved by April 2010.

Although LAA1 came to an end in March 2008 and was succeeded by LAA2, the 14 Reward Targets will continue until 2010. Progress is carefully tracked to ensure the best possible support is given to achieving them and the potential Performance Reward Grant that accompanies them.