New resource from Homeless Link: Local Area Agreements Toolkit
This toolkit helps you to profile the work that your organisation does against the national indicators in your Local Area Agreement. It will provide you with a printable report that you can use in discussions with commissioners about how your work fits into the strategic priorities in your local area. The toolkit contains case studies of homelessness services that have linked their work to the specific LAA indicators and examples of data and research that could support your case.
Demonstrate your contribution: homelessness and the new National Indicators
| The implementation of a new performance framework for local government has important implications for homelessness agencies. In order to attract funding, agencies need to prepare to show that their work contributes to the new national indicators on which local authorities will be judged. This report identifies which indicators homelessness agencies may contribute towards, including indicators for the whole population along with those for vulnerable people. |
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Contents
- Update on the immediate situation
- Advice on demonstrating your contribution to NI targets
- Indictors that are relevant to homelessness
- Key points for action
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Number of pages: 8 |
Date: 11 January 2007 (revised 12/02/08)
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Author Sara Burns and Joy MacKeith, Triangle Consulting
Publisher The London Housing Foundation |
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Summary
From April 2008, the performance of local authorities and their partners will be monitored through the government’s new 198 National Indicators. Particular attention will be given to achieving targets against 35 of these indicators which will be selected and agreed locally within Local Area Agreements.
In order to attract funding, homelessness agencies will need to demonstrate how their work contributes to as many of their local authority targets as possible. This will become even more vital in April 2009 when it is very likely that the ring-fence will be removed from Supporting People funding.
There is no indicator specific to homelessness, so agencies not able to show their cross-cutting contribution to achieving against a wide range of indicators may be more likely to have their funding threatened. Agencies therefore urgently need to consider how they will prove that they make a valuable contribution to achieving the National Indicators (NIs), particularly the 35 NIs in their Local Area Agreement.
This paper highlights all the relevant indicators and provides guidance on how to demonstrate the value of your work within this context.
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