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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.

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