mediating networks, hierarchies and market approaches

Combining the strengths of UMIST andThe Victoria University of Manchester

Mediating Networks, Hierarchies and Market ApproachesThe role of the Local Area Agreement (LAA) as a governance hybrid


Dr. Jon Coaffee & Nicola HeadlamPAC Stormont Conference September 2007Regeneration Management ThemePolicy and Practice : The challenge for local governance after the white paper


Local governance hybrids

Twin Tracks ; • LG “form” and “function”• Urban policy from 1977 White Paper

• Post 1997 intensification – NSNR etc• Area Based Initiatives (ABI)• “initiative-itis”• “Muddled middle” • “Pragmatic localism”• Turn toward governance solutions

Introduction



• “addiction” to partnerships• Partnership working • Joined up government• Shared services • Transformational government• Delegation - devolution – de-centralisation • “Partnerships are net absorbers of value”

The partnership panacea


HO PSA Delivery

PSA 5

PSA 3

PSA 2 (Joint OCJR)

PSA 1

PSA 4

PSA 7

PSA 6

One City Partnership

(LSP)

Notts Police

GOEM (43Staff)

5 Police Forces; 9 DATs;40 CDRPs; 49 Local Auth’s

ProbationPrisonsNASS ASB PolicingPolicy

PolicingStandards

CrimeReduction Drugs ACDCCU, REU, F

NDCLCJB

9 Area Committees

NOMS

CJS

OCJR CRCSG CommunitiesIND

NottinghamCity Council

Police Authority

Probation Inspectorate

CDRP DATCJIPCompact

CPS

HMICPrisons Inspectorate

Individual Regional Offices

Nott BCU

ProbationService

YOT

Courts

REGIONAL

NATIONAL

LOCAL

HMP

Voluntary & Community Sector



• Partnership addiction at ABI scale• Partnership Virus (Brighouse)• Abusive partnerships• Terms of Reference • Culture• RDAs from 1999• Skills for “liminal management”

…morphs into network governance


Local Governance Hybrids

• Network• Hierarchy• Market

• Hybrids• Improvised forms • Tensions

Other forms of governance



• The A of the LAA is not the A of the ABI• “Place shaping” ??which place??• Fluidity “within” and “between”• Regional question• City Regional-Neighbourhood Renewal (Turok & Robson) • ??LAA as “connector” from CR-NR??

Governance at other scales



• Rapid change in focus and position• “orphan policy” nationally• Ignored regionally• Enthusiastically embraced locally (pilots)• “Eating a cloud with a knife and fork”• Phase II and roll-out

The LAA 2004-2007


LAA Framework

Local Community

Local partners

National Priorities

Monitoring and

Reporting

OutcomesScrutiny

Sustainable Communities

Strategy

Funding

LAA

Enterprise & Economic DevelopmentHealthier communities, and older people

Safer and stronger communitiesChildren and young people

---------------------------------------------------

LAA Reward Grant

LSP



• Fit between SCS, LSP, LAA and LDF clarified• LGPIH Act 2007…• “Duty to have regard to”• “Duty to prepare”• “Duty to consult” 15 statutory consultees

The LAA within the LGWP 2006



• Brokerage / boundary spanning role• Boundary objects• Liminal managers• Leadership • Egan skills etc.• ??local prioritisation and decision making??

How the LAA is changing Public Administration in practice

mediating networks, hierarchies and market approaches

Presentations & Public Speaking