All church representatives on strategic partnerships in Cumbria meet together twice a year for mutual support and to share issues and problems that arise in carrying out their voluntary representative role on behalf of Churches Together and other organisations. This support/liaison group is chaired and serviced by the Social Responsibility Development Officer.
Local strategic partnerships (LSP) were developed by the Government as a method of increasing community involvement in the local political process and in decision making about the local area and service provision. There is a local strategic partnership in every part of the country. The LSPs include representatives from the public services (e.g. health and local government), business, the voluntary sector, and community organisations.
Government guidance states that faith communities
should be represented on LSPs.
The local strategic
partnerships work on policy on all major areas of public life and concern, e.g.
housing, employment, the environment,
health, crime.
There
are 5 local strategic partnerships in Cumbria:
Carlisle
Local Strategic Partnership: covering Carlisle City Council area.
Eden Local Strategic Partnership covering Eden Borough Council area.
Furness Local Strategic Partnership: covering Barrow Borough Council area.
South
Lakeland Local Strategic Partnership: covering South Lakeland District Council
area.
West
Cumbria Partnership: covering Allerdale Borough Council and Copeland Borough
Council areas.
The Church is represented on all these local strategic partnerships. Get in touch with your representative
to find out what is happening in your local area, and to raise issues and concerns:
|
Carlisle LSP
|
Rev David Hasson |
revhasson@aol.com
|
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Eden LSP
|
Rev. Peter Sharp |
revpetersharp@googlemail.com |
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Furness LSP
|
Mr. Ron Turner Rev . Stuart Evason
|
ronald.turner@mypostoffice.co.uk
|
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South Lakeland LSP
|
Mr Robert Straughton |
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West Cumbria Partnership |
Ven Richard Pratt |
archdeacon.west@carlislediocese.org.uk |
Cumbria Strategic Partnership
There
is also a strategic partnership that operates at county level. The Cumbria
Strategic Partnership promotes the county regionally, nationally and
internationally.
The
Church is represented on the Cumbria Strategic Partnership by
Rev Colin Laxon:
sro@carlislediocese.org.uk
Deputy:-