Local Enterprise Partnerships and Regional Growth

Capita’s National Conference

Local Enterprise Partnerships and Regional Growth Thursday 24th March 2011 – Central London Plus a Half-Day Briefing

Local Enterprise Partnerships: The Legal Essentials Friday 25th March 2011 – Central London

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Local Enterprise Partnerships and Regional Growth Thursday 24th March 2011 – Central London The Coalition Government reiterated in its Local Growth White Paper an overarching commitment to ‘ensuring that growth is spread and prosperity shared’ by ‘bringing together business and civic leaders to set the strategy’ for each local area.1 Capita’s Local Enterprise Partnerships and Regional Growth Conference is timed to critically examine how the Government’s objectives are being put into practice. Providing detailed insights into the delivery and funding of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), attend this event to make sure you and your local and regional partners are ready to develop real sustainable economic growth. Addressing the key changes being made to regional development policy, this conference presents a crucial analysis of how local authorities are working with business leaders to ensure focused investment translates into the prosperity as set out in the White Paper. Combining expertise from leading Government policy makers and those implementing dynamic economic strategies, this topical event offers clarification on: • Securing LEP influence and meeting local needs • The Government’s wider economic plans outlined in the Decentralisation and Localism Bill • Building successful decision making structures and meeting different partners’ needs • The Regional Growth Fund’s role in inspiring private sector growth

Benefits of Attending

Who Should Attend

• Hear from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills about what LEPs are actually going to do and the difference they will make

Representatives from regional and local authorities and partnerships, housing, community, voluntary and social enterprises and the private sector including: • Chief Executives • Council Leaders • Local Strategic Partnerships • Local Public Service Boards • Communities First • Regeneration Teams • Economic Growth Development Teams • Policy and Planning Teams • Heads of Town Centre • Worklessness Teams • Sustainable Communities Teams • Sustainable Development Teams • Partnership Managers • Business and Enterprise Development Teams • Neighbourhood and Community Investment Teams • Tenant Participation Teams • Neighbourhood Managers • Housing Teams • Jobcentre Plus • Employment and Skills Providers • Voluntary and Community Sector • Private Sector • Government Offices • Department for Work and Pensions • Communities and Local Government

• Take away a full understanding of what the Regional Growth Fund’s objectives are and how it is being invested • Learn from innovative LEPs sharing useful detail about putting private sector growth at the heart of what they do • Discover ways in which LEPs will tackle worklessness and overcome challenges to local economic regeneration • Identify how LEPs will support the delivery of housing • Pinpoint the key prerequisites to successful partnerships between business and local authority leaders • Listen to what the private sector wants to gain from formal involvement and how to engage and maintain their enthusiasm

Make sure that you are up to date with the Government’s local growth plans and are working effectively to realise your community’s full business and economic potential. 1

White Paper: Local growth: realising every place’s potential, 28 October 2010

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Half-Day Briefing

Local Enterprise Partnerships: The Legal Essentials Friday 25th March 2011 – Central London Capita’s half-day briefing on the Legal Essentials of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) examines the practical issues being faced by the newly established LEP Boards. Answering the everyday questions asked by the local authority and business leaders steering the partnerships, this briefing gives necessary advice on forming sustainable decision making structures and maintaining public accountability. Facilitated by legal experts who have been heavily involved in advising LEPs, the briefing provides an interactive forum which offers a breadth of guidance on running an LEP and overcoming legal and funding obstacles.

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Benefits of Attending • Take away the answers you need on how the legal status of a Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) affects its functions • Explore how to take into consideration all the costs involved in running an LEP

• Understand what impact the disposal of Regional Development Agency (RDA) assets and liabilities will have on your area • Hear new ways in which local growth can be financed going forward

Forthcoming events for 2011 Big Society – 26th January – Central London Shared Services – 15th February – Manchester Community-Based Budgets – 29th March – Central London

Conference programme 09.20 Registration, Tea and Coffee

12.10 Questions and Discussion

09.50 Chair’s Opening Remarks Professor Alan Harding, Director Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG)

12.20 Local Enterprise Partnerships' Role in Housing and Regeneration • Supporting LEPs' ambitions • Housing and regeneration as drivers of local economic growth • The HCA's work with LEPs Jim Bennett, Head of Corporate Strategy Homes and Communities Agency

Opening Panel Discussion 10.00 Panel Discussion: How Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will Deliver Local Economic Growth • Reaching beyond traditional economic regeneration areas • How can an LEP add value? • What will happen to existing projects funded by Regional Development Agencies (RDAs)? • The advantages for the private sector • Creating strong collaboration between business and local authority leaders to meet local needs Paul Carter, Leader, Kent County Council Kieran McNamara, Assistant Director for Economy and Community Services, East Sussex County Council Gary Sullivan, Managing Director, Wilson James and Chairman, Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership

12.50 Questions and Discussion 13.00 Lunch 14.00

Keeping the Private Sector Engaged • What does the private sector bring to local growth? • Inspiring a ‘can do’ attitude in the public sector • What the private sector wants from partnerships • Crucial lessons in measuring success Dr Adam Marshall Director of Policy British Chamber of Commerce


Regional and Local Economic Growth 10.40 How the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is Driving Development • Achieving private sector growth in regions dominated by the public sector • What type of projects and schemes is the RGF funding? • Identifying sustainable and profitable businesses • Supporting small and medium enterprises Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, Deputy Chairman Regional Growth Fund and Chairman, Port of Tyne 11.10 Questions and Discussion 11.20 Tea and Coffee 11.40 Local Enterprise Partnerships as Part of the Bigger Picture • How LEPs fit into the Government’s Decentralisation and Localism Bill • What local matters should be focussed on? • Preventing ‘talking shops’ Philippa Lloyd, Director, Economic Development Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Partnership Working 14.30 Working Across Local Authority Boundaries • Successfully integrating private and public sector perspectives and objectives • Working with local authorities belonging to two LEPs • Getting partners to collaborate on management and funding Eddie Martin, Leader, Cumbria County Council and Member of the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership Board 14.55 Local Enterprise Partnerships’ Strategy and Direction • Analysing different types of LEPs • Nurturing successful partnerships with businesses and business people • The limits and possibilities of LEPs • How can partnerships deliver growth? Neil McInroy Chief Executive Centre for Local Economic Strategies 15.20 Questions and Discussion 15.30 Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

Briefing programme 08.30 Registration, Tea and Coffee


09.00 Introduction by Workshop Facilitator Steven Smith, Partner Eversheds LLP

10.30 Tea and Coffee

09.10

Structures and Governance • Examining the legal status of an LEP • Essential steps to ensuring accountability • The role of the private and third sector • Developing robust decision-making structures

09.40 Questions and Discussion 09.50

Funding a Local Enterprise Partnership • Considering day to day costs • How will the Regional Growth Fund be utilised? • Understanding where European funding currently administered by Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) will be directed • What the disposal of RDA assets and liabilities will mean to your area

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10.50 Innovative Financing for Local Regeneration and Economic Development Projects • How to realistically raise the finance needed to fund new infrastructure • Assessing Tax Increment Finance and Accelerated Development Zone pilots 11.20 Questions and Discussion 11.30 Overcoming the Difficulties Obstructing an LEP's Approval • Successful liaison with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Communities and Local Government • Consultation with partners and the local community Nick Tennant, Team Leader, Local Enterprise Partnerships Team, Department for Communities and Local Government 12.00 End of Workshop

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