The Board is developing a long term vision, direction and ambition for Waltham Forest expressed through the Sustainable Community Strategy
- developing and reviewing the LAA and being accountable for its delivery
- ensuring that the Sustainable Community Strategy drives spatial planning via the Local Development Framework
- approving governance arrangements and protocols about the operation of the LSP
- agreeing systems and procedures for effective sharing arrangements and collaboration amongst partners
- developing the strategic commissioning process and effective delivery arrangements
- developing a system of performance management
- approving any proposals for change to the LSP structure and/or membership
- ensuring that appropriate equality impact assessments are undertaken and that adequate arrangements are in place for:
- promoting inclusion and equality of opportunity
- promoting community cohesion
- block allocation of relevant funding streams to theme outcomes
- monitoring of key targets under the LAA
- commissioning of studies, reviews and evaluations of matters that relate to more than one theme partnership
- improving collaboration across theme partnerships (eg the establishment of task groups or consideration of services on a client group basis)
- holding organisations to account for effective delivery
