Glossary L

Ladder of Participation

A five-stage sequence of activities illustrative of the range of public engagement styles currently in use (per Arnstein, Wilcox and others).

Note:

  • The five stages are information, consultation, joint decisions, joint activity and support.  Consultation is, therefore, the second stage of the ladder

Limited Public Meeting

A public meeting held in a venue that is specific to one type of stakeholder, and which excludes others. For example a home for the elderly.

LINks

See Local Involvement Networks

Local Compacts

See Compacts

Local Involvement Networks

Local Involvement Networks (LINks)  aim to give citizens a stronger voice in how their health and social care services are delivered. Run by local individuals and groups and independently supported - the role of LINks is to find out what people want, monitor local services and to use their powers to hold them to account.

Local Strategic Partnership

A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)  is a single non-statutory, multi-agency body, which matches local authority boundaries, and aims to bring together, at a local level, a range of Government agencies alongside representatives of the voluntary and community sectors with a view to influencing (or in cases, managing) the delivery of public services and to oversee Community Plans. LSPs are key to tackling deep seated, multi-faceted problems, requiring a range of responses from different bodies. Local partners working through a LSP will be expected to take many of the major decisions about priorities and funding for their local area.

Localism (or New Localism)

Localism is making services more locally accountable, devolving more power to local communities and, in the process, forging a modern relationship between the state, citizens and services

(Speech by Rt Hon Alan Milburn MP 'Localism: The need for a new settlement', DEMOS seminar, 21 January 2004)

There are three main elements that provide the foundation for new localism:

  • providing national standards and accountability for high quality services
  • devolving power to councils and giving additional freedom to meet local needs, and
  • building capacity at local level to deliver better services and provide effective community leadership.

(Adapted from a speech by Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP ODPM 'New localism: making a reality of the myth', 17 March 2003)

LSP

See Local Strategic Partnership