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, and about the the membership, structure of the ISP, and remit of the ISP, please click on the links on the left of this page.

What’s New - useful resources about Islington

We have recently undertaken two pieces of work which will help us to get a better understanding of Islington as a place and the needs of our residents.

The first piece of work is the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.  This was compiled in 2008 and aims to assess the main health and wellbeing issues facing people in Islington. It looks not only at health problems, but also at the underlying factors that can contribute to poor health such as poverty, environment, housing and the other key outcome areas in our SCS.

More recently, we have undertaken a Self Assessment of how the Council and its partners are doing in delivering services which meet the needs of the people of Islington and address the range of issues we need to tackle if we are really going to improve the lives of our residents. The document summarises our performance for the 2008/09 year and assesses the future prospects in relation to our key priorities - such as crime and safety, environment, housing and the economy.

Both of these documents provide a useful profile of Islington, and include some key facts and statistics.

You can download the JSNA and Self Assessment by clicking on the links below.