The TSP
What are Local Strategic Partnerships?
Local Strategic Partnerships attempt to offer multi-agency solutions to a range of community-wide economic, social and environmental issues. They bring together a diverse set of partners from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to agree key aims, objectives and priorities for their local area and people.
Local Strategic Partnerships bring together a number of local organisations such as the council, police, health service, community organisations and key private sector stakeholders to improve the quality of life in their locality.
Local Strategic Partnerships operate at a level which enables strategic decisions to be taken, and are close enough to individual neighbourhoods to allow actions to be determined at a community level.
What does the Tameside Strategic Partnership do?
The Partnership brings together around seventy organisations to jointly agree and deliver the Tameside Sustainable Community Strategy. This involves:
- Ensuring adequate representation for the public, private, voluntary and community sectors in our partnership structure;
- Making sure that an effective performance management framework ensures that our partnership delivers lasting improvements;
- Letting you know, through marketing and communications, how we are progressing;
- Deploying the resources necessary to achieve our priorities;
- Agreeing a common strategy for Tameside: the Sustainable Community Strategy.
The TSP is a non-statutory, non-executive organisation. It consists of a Board of 30 representatives from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors plus seven thematic partnerships. A Guide to the Tameside Strategic Partnership (308KB) 
explains the structure, membership and role of the partnership. The TSP has a terms of reference, which explains the aims, key tasks, membership and operation of the partnership.
Commitments
The Tameside Strategic Partnership's commitments to the 'Sustainable Use of Resources' and a 'Statement of Commitment to promoting Equality and Diversity within Tameside' have been established in order to improve the Partnership's approach to ensuring that organisations agree on the same values and priorities around these issues.