The Culture and Sport Toolkit for Local Area Agreements has been designed to support people with different levels of knowledge and understanding about culture and sport and about LAAs. It can be navigated:

• by generic modules. This will take you to information on a complete subject area and across all themes.
• by local priority themes. This will take you to information on how culture and sport contribute to a specific local priority theme or outcome, including theme related examples.
• at a strategic level with ‘at a glance’ information, if you operate at a high level, have limited time or just need a quick reminder about key issues
• at a detailed level with supporting tiers of information, practical tools and case study examples, if you are not so familiar with a subject area and need more evidence and assistance to persuade others of the value of culture and sport

The seven generic modules are:

• National drivers – which identifies how culture and sport contribute to key national agendas and strategies
• Regional priorities – which identifies how culture and sport contribute to key generic and culture specific regional agendas and strategies in the South East
• Local priorities – which identifies how culture and sport contribute to key local priority outcomes
• Practical tools – which includes ‘how to’ checklists, relationship models by theme and example presentations
• Performance management – which sets out the performance framework for LAAs, suggested cultural and sport performance indicators to measure key outcomes and examples from existing LAAs
• Case studies – from the South East region on the contribution of culture and sport to local priorities
• Further information – sources of further information and evidence to make the case for the contribution of culture and sport to local area agreements.

If you are interested in finding out more about how culture and sport contribute to a particular theme or outcome you can view the content under nine local priority theme headings identified from community strategies in the South East. These are:

• Improving the life chances of children and young people
• Health and well being
• Reducing crime and fear of crime
• Strengthening communities and involving people
• Promoting lifelong learning, training and skills development
• Increasing economic prosperity and employment
• Protecting and enhancing the environment
• Providing decent and affordable housing
• Improving travel and transport

These combine overview information about the contribution of culture and sport to LAAs with specific theme based tools and examples.

If you need strategic level information on each front page of the generic modules or themes there is an ‘at a glance’ summary of the key issues and/or section content. This is presented in diagram format, bullet points or short text paragraphs.

If you need detailed level information on a subject area or theme you can obtain further information through highlighted hyper-links within each section and on each web page. The practical tools section also provides further guidance and assistance.

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