All RDAs across England are closing by March 2012
(see transition and closure section).
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Joint working with the Strategic Leaders Board (SLB)
The RDA is committed to working strategically in support of the
South West Region. One of the ways we are doing this is through
joint working with the Strategic
Leaders Board (made up of a grouping of local authority leaders
from County and Unitary Authorities in the region along with a
member each from Districts in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and
Somerset). The Local Democracy, Economic Development and
Construction (LDEDC) Act, which created the Strategic Leaders’
Board, requires joint working between the Board and the RDA.
As proposed in the Sub-National Review (SNR), a group combining
representatives of the SLB and the Regional Assembly is responsible
for developing a Single Regional Strategy. This offers a
significant change to regional governance from the previous set-up
of Regional Assemblies.
A Change
Management Programme was published jointly by the South West
RDA, the then South West Regional Assembly and the Strategic
Leaders’ Board. The document describes progress in the South West
with implementing the SNR and explains how the organisations intend
to work with partners to implement the reforms in a way that
secures the best possible outcome for the South West.
The RDA and the Strategic Leaders’ Board have been working
together to implement the Change Management Programme. At the
moment, along with strengthening these embryonic governance
structures, we are researching the information which will provide
the basis for the Regional Strategy.
Building on the Change Management Programme, the RDA and
Strategic Leaders’ Board are developing a scheme for joint working
arrangements which will be out for consultation in early 2010. Once
the scheme is agreed it will provide the structure for future joint
working between the SW RDA and Strategic Leaders’ Board.
Meetings of the Strategic Leaders’ Board are open to the public
to attend and agendas and meeting notes will be published on the
websites both of the South West RDA and of South West Councils.