Introduction to the LSP

Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) bring together a range of organisations from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to tackle social exclusion - a combination of unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime, bad health and family breakdown which afflict some of the country's most deprived areas.

The concept of LSPs was introduced by the Government in 2000. Newham's LSP was formed in 2001 around the shared ambition that "by 2010 Newham will be a major business location and a place where people will choose to live and work".

A central part of the LSPs work is to encourage the main service providers in the borough to work together to produce better outcomes for local residents and to help create sustainable development in the area. The Government, the Council and other service providers are working together to reallocate resources and adapt work programmes to meet these objectives.