Staffordshire Strategic Partnership

About the Staffordshire Strategic Partnership

The Staffordshire Strategic Partnership (SSP) is the county Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). It provides a framework for all agencies, sectors and partners to work collectively to promote the economic, social and environmental well being of the County.

The SSP has three main roles:

To develop a long term vision for Staffordshire;
To provide a forum to explore and discuss new issues and to recommend ways of tackling them in the partnership environment;
To develop the Sustainable Community Strategy for the County.

Cllr John Taylor (Leader of Staffordshire County Council) chairs the SSP, while Christina Webb is the dedicated SSP Manager. Christina manages the day to day business of the SSP, as well organising the SSP Events and leading the development of the Sustainable Community Strategy for Staffordshire.

SSP Events

The SSP meets throughout the year to discuss amongst other things the Local Area Agreement and Sustainable Community Strategy. Watch this space for details of the next LSP event in Autumn 2008!

District LSPs

Each District also has a Local Strategic Partnership

Name of LSP	LSP Contact	Email Address
Chase Community Partnership	Mark Fletcher	markfletcher@cannockchasedc.gov.uk
East Staffordshire LSP	Mike Hovers	michael.hovers@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk
Lichfield LSP	Lesley Bovington	lesley.bovington@lichfielddc.gov.uk
Newcastle LSP	Naomi Chesters	nchesters@nmtpathfinder.co.uk
South Staffs LSP	Sherminder Dhillon	s.dhillon@sstaffs.gov.uk
Stafford LSP	Tracy Redpath	tredpath@staffordbc.gov.uk
Moorlands Together LSP	Mark Forrester	mark.forrester@staffsmoorlands.gov.uk
Tamworth	Emma Pipe	emma-pipe@tamworth.gov.uk

The eight District LSP Managers and the SSP Manager meet on a regular basis at the LSP Managers' Group.

Learning to Deliver (L2D) 2007/08

From the start, Staffordshire County LSP and all eight District LSPs agreed to work together on the L2D Programme, out of which two improvement projects developed:

Performance Management

The successful outcome of this improvement project was a fit-for-purpose LAA performance management process. It was also the start of the development of a performance orientation culture across Staffordshire.

Locality Working

The successful outcome for this improvement project was improved delivery of services and/or quality of life through better partnership working.

The emphasis was on working at the locality level, using neighbourhood management principles, and the project team was supported by the Managers of the two successful Staffordshire Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders - Knutton Cross Heath and Heart of Burton. Each District representative chose either a new area for locality working or an area where such work was already taking place but where value could be added. The successes are outlined in the booklet below.

PDF Staffordshire Locality Working Project

For more information

For more information on the Staffordshire Strategic Partnership, L2D or the LSP Managers Group please contact Christina Webb (Christina.webb@staffordshire.gov.uk).

Last Modified: 18/09/2008 09:12:37
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