Welcome

The County Durham Partnership (CDP) was formed in 2007 following a merger between the County Durham Strategic Partnership and the Local Area Agreement Board to create one partnership framework in the county. The CDP is the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) for the whole of County Durham.

Partners from the public, business, voluntary and community sectors come together as the County Durham Partnership to work together to ensure local needs and priorities are met. The partnership takes the lead on developing and delivering County Durham's Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement. All partners want to work together to improve the quality of life for people in County Durham.

The County Durham Partnership provides a local partnership framework which other partnerships operate from. The partnership framework has five lead partnerships which each concentrate on specific areas of work. These are called the lead 'thematic partnerships'. Each of these thematic partnerships then has further partnerships and groups that feed into them.

Each thematic partnership provides advice and expertise on their specific area of work to the County Durham Partnership board. Each partnership also has responsibility for the achievement of certain SCS and LAA objectives and targets.

The five lead thematic partnerships in County Durham are:

• The Children's Trust
• County Durham Community Safety Board
• County Durham Economic Partnership
• County Durham Health and Wellbeing Partnership
• County Durham Sustainability and Environment Partnership

All partnerships work to the County Durham Compact, a framework to promote and support partnership working between the voluntary and community sector and public sector organisations, ensuring productive partnerships based on mutual respect and trust.

A new website is being developed to reflect the new County Durham Partnership framework. In the meantime, information about the County Durham Partnership, the five lead thematic partnerships and their work, including the latest on the Local Area Agreement and Sustainable Community Strategy, is available on the interim County Durham Partnership website.

Information relating to the County Durham Economic Partnership and County Durham Sustainability and Environment Partnership is still available on this website. Please use the links on the left to view this information.