Active travel	Health-enhancing physical activity (such as walking and cycling) as a means of transport in the daily routine, including the journey to work or school.
Children and young people’s plan (CYPP)	Describes how a local authority will work with partners to meet the needs of children and young people. It is a single, strategic, overarching plan for all services affecting children and young people. Its purpose is to ensure more integrated and effective planning and delivery of services. By law, all county and unitary councils must prepare a CYPP, unless they are exempted.
Culture	The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) defines culture as: the performing and visual arts, craft and fashion   libraries, literature, writing and publishing museums, artifacts, archives and design built heritage, architecture, landscape and archaeology  sports events, facilities and development media, film, television, video and language parks, open spaces, wildlife habitats, water environment and countryside recreation children’s play, playgrounds and play activities  tourism, festivals and attractions informal leisure pursuits
Departmental Strategic Objectives	The main priorities of individual government departments. They are supported by indicators to measure performance against the department’s priorities. DSOs and supporting indicators are developed alongside Public Service Agreements that set out what departments will do to deliver cross-governmental national priorities.
Designated targets	Targets in Local Area Agreements from 2008 to improve performance against national and local priorities. They are based on the national indicator set and negotiated with and monitored by central government through regional government offices.
Diamonds for Investment and Growth	The South East Regional Economic Strategy 2006-2016 identifies eight major concentrations of growth potential. These ‘Diamonds for Investment and Growth’ are: Basingstoke Brighton & Hove Gatwick Diamond Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale Oxford / Central Oxfordshire Reading Thames Gateway Kent (including Medway and Ebbsfleet) Urban South Hampshire (including Portsmouth and Southampton)   The concentrations of people, employment, built assets, knowledge, transport, networking, creativity, leisure, culture and diversity in these areas provide potential for them to act as catalysts to stimulate prosperity across wider areas. There is also scope for further sustainable growth through targeted investment in their infrastructure.
Disability Discrimination Act 2005	Introduced amendments and extensions to existing provisions under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995. It includes a duty on public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, known as the Disability Equality Duty.   The DDA 2005 requires public bodies to have ‘due regard’ to the need to: eliminate unlawful discrimination of disabled people eliminate harassment of disabled people promote equality of opportunity between disabled and able bodied people take steps to take account of people’s disabilities, even if this means treating disabled people more favourably promote positive attitudes towards disabled people encourage the participation of disabled people in public life.
Diversionary activities	Activities and projects that help stop young people getting into trouble. Diversionary activities discourage or divert young people away from participating in ‘youth nuisance’ or anti social behaviour by giving them interesting and more positive things to do and places to go. They can also help young people feel part of their community and increase their self-esteem and confidence. Diversionary activities can be ‘universal’ (aimed at everybody) or ‘targeted’ at particular groups, such as youth offenders, or in certain areas, for example where there are high levels of social exclusion.
Duty	A legal obligation.
Extended schools	An extended school is one that provides a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of its pupils, their families and the wider community. Extended schools are a key vehicle for delivering the Government’s objective of lifting children out of poverty and improving outcomes for them and their families.
Green Paper	A consultation document on central government policy. Government may publish a green paper outlining policy on a topic and asking for feedback, before presenting it to Parliament as a Bill. A Green Paper is not a requirement of any Bill.
Growth Areas	Part of the Government's ambition to increase levels of housing supply to 240,000 homes a year by 2016. Much of this growth will be in the four Growth Areas: Thames Gateway Milton Keynes & South Midlands London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough Ashford. Combined with London, the aim is for these areas to sustainably provide 200,000 additional homes above previously planned levels by 2016.
Local Area Agreement (LAA)	A three year agreement between central and local government and major delivery partners in a local area. LAAs are expected to achieve local solutions that meet local needs, as well as contribute to national priorities and meet standards set by central government. They also aim to simplify the number of central government funding streams going into an area to help join up service delivery and allow greater flexibility. By law, all county and unitary councils must prepare a Local Area Agreement.
Local performance indicator	Indicators that measure performance against local priority outcomes that local government and their major delivery partners want to achieve. Local indicators do not have to be reported on to government.
Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)	A multi-agency body that matches a local authority boundary and brings together at a local level the different parts of the public, private, community and voluntary sectors. The purpose of LSPs is to provide leadership of a local area and improve quality of life through better planning, co-ordination and delivery of services. LSPs often have no resources of their own and rely on negotiations and pooling of resources between partners. They are optional, except for some local authorities where they are required in order to receive specific funding.
National priority outcomes	The important results that government wants to achieve through its work with local areas. Their achievement will be measured through the single set of national indicators.
Need to reach	The term ‘need to reach’ or ‘hard to hear’ refers to disadvantaged consumers and those who are otherwise at risk of being excluded. These usually include minority groups, such as ethnic minority groups, asylum seekers or travellers; those who ‘slip through the net’ which includes those caring for others, those with mental health problems, service users who fall just outside the statutory or usual remit of a provider, or whose needs are apparently not so great as to grant access to a service; and those who are service resistant and unwilling to engage with service providers, including the suspicious, the over targeted or disaffected. This includes families ‘known’ to agencies such as social services or others who are distrustful and potentially hostile to service providers. The challenge is to ensure that the interests of all groups of consumers are fully represented and involved.
Non departmental public body	A body that has a role in the processes of national government but is not a government department or part of one. NDPBs operate to a greater or lesser extent at arm's length from ministers and civil servants. Ministers are ultimately responsible to Parliament for NDPBs but the day-to-day decisions they make are independent. NDPBs are commonly referred to as ‘quangos’.
Non-designated targets	Targets in Local Area Agreements from 2008 to improve performance against purely local priorities. They are drawn from the sustainable community strategy for the area and agreed and monitored by local partners only.
Personalised services	Services that are built around, tailored and co-ordinated to fit the individual needs of the people who want or need to use them.
Place shaping	The creative use of powers and influence to promote the general well-being of a community and its citizens. It includes the following components: building and shaping local identity representing the community regulating harmful and disruptive behaviours maintaining the cohesiveness of the community and supporting debate within it, ensuring smaller voices are heard helping to resolve disagreements  working to make the local economy more successful while being sensitive to pressures on the environment understanding local needs and preferences and making sure that the right services are provided to local people  working with other bodies to respond to complex challenges such as natural disasters and other emergencies
Positive activities	Constructive and purposeful leisure-time activities for young people. A new duty on local authorities to secure young people’s access to positive activities was introduced in 2006. It defines two forms of positive activity:  educational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their well-being recreational leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their well-being. Local authorities must ensure that they secure access for young people to sufficient forms of, and facilities for, both types of positive activity. The definition of ‘well-being’ in the legislation reflects the five ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes.
Public Realm	The public open space around and between buildings, including streets, squares and parks.
Public Service Agreement (PSA)	Explains what each of the main government departments plans to deliver in return for continued investment in resources. It sets out the department’s aims, objectives and performance targets. The main purpose of PSAs is to measure how well resources are being used and whether departments are achieving the results that government wants. PSAs reflect government’s top national priorities. Most cut across the work of more than one government department. Targets are agreed between departments and the Treasury in Spending Reviews. Progress against targets is reported each year in departmental reports.
Relationship models	Diagrams showing how community engagement in culture and sport links to the outcomes in Local Area Agreements and Sustainable Community Strategies.
Reward	The reward element for existing LAAs is an additional grant to the LAA partnership from central government. It is for achievement of specific challenging targets for a small number of the LAA performance indicators. The Reward model is being reviewed for the new round of LAAs. In future it is likely to be awarded based on an average performance score. This average score will be calculated through a combination of:   individual performance scores against a specified proportion of LAA targets achievement of a minimum average performance score across all of the LAA targets.
Section 106 agreement	A legally-binding agreement negotiated between a local planning authority and a land developer. The purpose of a Section 106 agreement is to make new development acceptable in planning terms by reducing the impact on the local community or by providing community benefits. It may involve a contribution from the developer towards infrastructure and services, such as recreational facilities. The terms ‘planning obligations’, ‘planning agreements’ and ‘Section 106 agreements’ are often used interchangeably.
SEE-IN (South East England Intelligence Network)	The Regional Observatory for the South East (and one of eight regional observatories in England). Its main purpose is to provide access to intelligence to support evidence-based policy development in the region.
Single set of national indicators	A set of 198 performance indicators that every single tier and county council Local Strategic Partnership has to report their performance against to government from April 2008. The indicators measure performance against the important results that government wants to achieve (national priority outcomes). They include five culture and sport specific indicators. The single set of national indicators replaces the many hundreds of indicators that government has in the past required local authorities to report performance against.
Social inclusion	The ability to participate fully in normal social activities and engage in political and civic life. The term is often used to describe the process of combating social exclusion. Social exclusion relates to being unable to participate fully in normal social activities, or to engage in political and civic life. This may be because people themselves, or the areas where they live, experience high crime, poor housing, high unemployment, low incomes or poor educational attainment.
South East Cultural Observatory	Collates, interprets and presents information to help maximise the impact of culture in the South East. This includes: looking at how the cultural sector is structured looking at how the cultural sector fits with and influences other "sectors", such as local government and health organisations focusing on themes where the positive impact of culture can be shown, such as learning and skills.
Sport	Sport means all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels.
Sports Champions mentoring programme	Actions to expand mentoring in the 2006 Respect Action Plan include new government investment of £1 million over three years to develop and expand the Sports Champions mentoring programme. This aims to build on the already successful programme where world class athletes inspire and motivate disaffected young people.
Statutory	Required by law
Sustainable/Sustainability	Activity that achieves lasting and mutually reinforcing economic, social and environmental benefits without compromising the needs of future generations.
Sustainable Community Strategy (formerly known as Community Strategy)	A high level plan to promote or improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local area. It is an overarching plan that draws on and influences the plans of the main agencies and organisations in a local area. It also draws on data and community aspirations to identify local priorities. By law, every local authority in England is responsible for producing a Sustainable Community Strategy but they must consult with local residents and partners, normally through the Local Strategic Partnership.
Unitary authority / Unitary council	A unitary council has responsibility for the delivery of all services in its area, unlike a county council, which shares responsibility for delivering services with district councils.
Visitor economy	Refers to the economic activity of visitors but also in planning terms to all of the elements that make for a successful visitor destination. This includes the things that attract visitors (natural environment, heritage and culture, iconic buildings, events etc); the infrastructure that supports their visit and the services provided to them.
White Paper	A statement of central government policy. The Government may publish a White Paper indicating policy on a topic, before presenting it to Parliament as a Bill. A White Paper is not a requirement of any Bill.
Youth Opportunity Card	A pilot initiative to give young people access to discounts on activities, venues and products. The YOC is intended to enable young people to make payments in the same way they might use a debit card. There is also a mechanism for government to top up the card to support less well off young people. Introduced in the youth Green Paper, Youth Matters, the YOC aims to encourage young people to engage in activities and support individual decision-making and purchasing power. The main purpose of testing the YOC is to find out if: giving young people spending power to engage in positive activities increases take-up, especially from disadvantaged groups  makes providers of services and activities more responsive to young people’s needs and wishes.
Youth Opportunity Fund	Money that young people can control and decide how to spend in their area. Introduced in the youth Green Paper, Youth Matters, the YOF aims to involve young people, particularly those facing disadvantage, in identifying positive activities and things to do. It also aims to support their role as decision makers, grant givers and project leaders. The YOF provides £31m each year for a two year period. There are no restrictions on the initiatives and activities that the YOF can be used for as long as they support the ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes. Local authorities are expected to develop arrangements for administering the YOF, in consultation with key stakeholders and young people in their area.

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