The Government is committed to narrowing the gap between the poorest neighbourhoods and the rest of the country. This means that Councils are expected to focus more of their main budgets on deprived areas to tackle areas of multiple deprivation in their constituency.
Waltham Forest’s Local Strategic Partnership has used the flexibility provided by the Local Area Agreement (LAA) to bring together its Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) with other funding streams for 2006/7 and 2007/8.
NRF allocation this year is £2,042,792 and the spending plan is a continuation of last year's, with programmes focusing on the 5 priority Neighbourhoods of the borough, addressing health, worklessness and education attainment issues. Support for Waltham Forest’s preparations for the 2012 Olympics and its legacy is included in this year's spending plan.
The Better Neighbourhoods approach is designed to directly address local concerns and to improve performance against key LAA targets.
- Strategic interventions focussing on health, worklessness and educational attainment themes
- Neighbourhood management to work with engaging residents and working with mainstream services providers to improve the way services are delivered
Address of the service
Better Neighbourhoods Initiative
Waltham Forest Council
Sycamore House
Forest Road
Walthamstow E17 4JF
Contacting the service
You can get in touch with us by:
tel 020 8496 3000
email shireen.sheikh@walthamforest.gov.uk
