Blackpool is confident and ambitious in its future plans for the town. Our resilience matches the level of challenge which the Council and partners are tackling together to improve social outcomes for local people by reversing social and economic decline in the town to make

This refreshed LAA builds on the success of the original, and reflects the changing context of regeneration in Blackpool. This is articulated in our new Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS). The SCS now focuses on four goals which align with the four themes of the LAA and provides the strategic framework to drive forward our programme of radical improvement in both economic prosperity and improved quality of life in the town. We want to:

Continue to focus our efforts to generate employment and reduce worklessness and benefit dependency in the town by maximising the benefits and opportunities created through our economic development, skills development and regeneration initiatives targeting the most deprived neighbourhoods.

Continue to tackle community safety and environmental issues in an integrated approach to neighbourhood improvement to ensure that we have stronger, safer, cleaner and greener communities

Continue to support Children and Young People through improvements in mental health services, reductions in teenage pregnancy, and improvements in education, employment and training, and participation in positive activities.

Continue to improve health outcomes for communities and older people through support for people at home, improving health and lifestyle through action on smoking, obesity, breastfeeding and encouraging participation in sport, we will continue to reduce health inequalities in our population.

In each of the themes we will continue in our approach to deepen and accelerate our radical change programme – building on the achievements of the original LAA in joint service delivery so that Blackpool is ’a great place to visit, a better place to live’

Our experience to date has been one of achieving outstanding outcomes through joint service delivery with our partners. In this refreshed LAA our intention is to build on and further strengthen this success. More broadly we are delighted by the energy and commitment that our private sector partners have contributed to Blackpool’s Enterprise Board, its Business Leadership Group and LEGI.

Our intention is to continue to actively support this involvement and emulate it through our ambitions for the third sector. New arrangements for a Third Sector Strategic Forum will be put in place over the coming weeks and will offer Blackpool and its residents a third sector contribution that reflects the town’s ambition for the future.

Our programme of partnership improvements is now turning to our strategic partnership arrangements. With the prompts of the new Sustainable Community Strategy and a refreshed LAA we will ensure that our priorities have the partnership arrangements in place that are required for delivery.