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