Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009

42 Community strategies: monitoring

(1) A local authority and its community planning partners must ensure that arrangements are made for monitoring—

(a) progress made towards meeting the community strategy objectives for the local authority’s area contained in the current community strategy; and

(b) the effectiveness of actions taken and functions exercised for the purpose of meeting those objectives.

(2) A community planning partner’s duty under subsection (1) extends only to matters connected with its functions.

(3) A local authority must from time to time (but at least once every two years) publish a statement which describes—

(a) progress made towards meeting the community strategy objectives for its area; and

(b) actions taken and functions exercised for the purpose of meeting those objectives.

(4) It is the duty of each community planning partner of a local authority to provide such information as the authority may reasonably require in order to enable it to comply with its duty under subsection (3).

(5) The first statement under subsection (3) must be produced within two years of the date on which a community strategy is published under section 39(4).