Government Office for London
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Roles
The Government Office for London (GOL) represents central government across the capital, delivering policies and programmes for eleven central government departments in a joined up way, and making London’s case in Whitehall. Government Office’s aim is to make London a better place: healthy, safe, clean and green, and investing in children and economic development.
The Government Office plays an important role in London:
- Delivering the Government’s policies on areas including leading the negotiation of 33 Local Area Agreements in London on behalf of central Government, acting as the key link between local partners at the borough level, and Whitehall.
- Ensuring the delivery of the Every Child Matters agenda in London
- Delivering policies on crime reduction, reducing drug misuse, planning and neighbourhood renewal.
- The London Resilience Team, set up after the 9/11 attacks, is working to make sure London is prepared for any emergency
- The Resettlement Team is putting in place the first coordinated pan-London approach to reducing re-offending.
- The GOL has recently remodeled itself, to focus on joined up, geographic working and now has five “locality” divisions focused on London’s boroughs, bringing together their sponsor Departments’ policies and programmes.
Departments
The eleven Whitehall departments are:
- Cabinet Office
- Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
- Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Department of Health (DoH)
- Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Home Office
- Ministry of Justice
