The Tendring Local Strategic Partnership

The Tendring Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a voluntary partnership that brings together the public, private and voluntary sector agencies responsible for providing services across the District to improve our quality of life.

The aim of the LSP is to create the environment in which various services and initiatives support one another and work together to improve the quality of life in the Tendring District.

The LSP operates at the strategic level and is yet close enough to individual neighbourhoods to allow actions to be decided at the community level.

The LSP allows decision making to be co-ordinated between all those responsible for service provision within its boundaries. It provides a forum to draw key service providers into a single body. Importantly, it allows the communities within the authority's boundary to work together with key agencies.

The Strategic Board of the LSP meets four times a year. The Strategic Board oversees the strategic direction of the LSP.

Theme Partner meetings are held quarterly, two weeks prior to the Strategic Board meeting, and it is here that the strategies are broken down into individual actions plans for delivery of the strategies' aims. You can find out more about the strategy on the Community Strategy web page.

An annual Stakeholders' event is held to which are invited a wide range of people and interested bodies, e.g. service providers, voluntary sector groups, schools and colleges, religious bodies, business people and members of the public.

You can view the Tendring LSP's Agreement and Protocol here [PDF 68k].

To make sure that the Tendring LSP is working as well as it can, a "peer challenge" of the partnership was carried out during Spring 2008. A peer challenge acts as a critical friend to compare Tendring's LSP against an "ideal" LSP to see where improvements can be made. The final report of the peer challenge is available to download here [PDF 262kb].

If you have any queries on the Tendring Local Strategic Partnership
please visit their website: http://www.tendringlsp.co.uk/, e-mail lsp@tendringdc.gov.uk or write to the Tendring Local Strategic Partnership, C/O Regeneration & Community Services, Council Offices, Barnes House, 92 Pier Avenue, Clacton, Essex CO15 1NJ or telephone Kathryn Mann on 01255 686358.