Islington Strategic Partnership

What is the Islington Strategic Partnership?

The Islington Strategic Partnership (ISP) is the local strategic partnership (LSP) for the London Borough of Islington. LSPs have now been established in all areas of the country.

They bring together at a local level the different parts of the public sector as well as the private, business, community and voluntary sectors to support each other and work together to improve the quality of life for local people. One partner cannot address all the problems of an area on its own – it is only by working together that we can achieve lasting change.

What are the aims and priorities of the ISP?

The Islington Strategic Partnership was established in February 2002. Its purpose is to improve the quality of life of local people and to create a community in where people from very diverse backgrounds, comprising extremes of advantage and disadvantage all have a chance to fulfil their potential. The ISP works together to tackle local issues.

Over the past years, ISP partners have worked together to deliver better homes, better education results, improved health and wellbeing, safer neighbourhoods, greener, cleaner open spaces and an increased sense of community engagement and participation.

The ISP is responsible for delivering the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS). This sets out the vision for Islington over the next 10 to 15 years.

It is also responsible for overseeing delivery of Islington's Local Area Agreement 2008-11.

To find out more about the SCS and LAA click on the links to the left of this page.

Details about the membership and structure of the ISP, and the Constitution which sets out the governance arrangements, can be found on the ISP Structures page.

What’s New....

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2009 

We have recently undertaken our second Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).  This pulls together a wide range of data and information about Islington and its residents. The first JSNA was first compiled in 2008 and aimed to pull together into one single source, an assessment of the main health and wellbeing issues affecting the people of Islington. It covers not only the more 'traditional' health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, etc, but also looks at the underlying factors that can contribute to poor health such as poverty, environment, housing and the other key outcome areas in our SCS.

The JSNA has now been updated to reflect latest data, information and progress. The summary version of the JSNA can be downloaded below. If you want to see the full version of the document you can download it from the NHS Islington website at

http://www.islington.nhs.uk/the-islington-2009-10-jsna.htm

Data and information

Both the self-assessment, and the latest JSNA, provide a valuable resource for those wishing to access facts, figures and statistics about Islington, and the priorities and issues we are striving to address through partnership working.

The Council has also recently launched a new section on this website - Borough Statistics - which contain a wide range of data and information about Islington and its people. These can be accessed through the Community and Living menu of the main website.

Islington Compact

We've recently reviewed and updated the Islington Compact. The Compact is an agreement setting out how local statutory sector bodies and the third sector will work together as partners to address the challenges facing the borough and improve the lives of everyone living in Islington.

The ISP has endorsed the Compact and individual members have signed up to it.

A copy of the Compact is attached below.