The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly is the region's strategic partnership. Its main roles are:
Developing and maintaining the region’s vision and priorities for a better and sustainable future, setting them out in an Integrated Regional Framework that guides the work of all other regional strategies and plans;
Acting as the regional planning body, overseeing work with partners to shape where and what types of development will meet the future needs of the region;
Scrutinising the Regional Economic Strategy to ensure that work to secure sustainable economic development and growth is delivering real benefits for the region; and
Ensures that regional agencies and their activities are accountable to the region through the active, majority involvement of all 22 Local Authority Leaders working alongside social, economic and environmental partners.
Yorkshire Forward was set up by Government to promote sustainable economic development throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region. One of England's nine Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) Yorkshire Forward is a business led organisation that aims to help improve the region’s relative economic performance and reduce social and economic disparities. Yorkshire Forward works in partnership with organisations throughout the region to deliver objectives under the Regional Economic Strategy.
GOYH is one of the nine regional offices co-ordinating the work of various Government departments in England. It provides the mechanism for delivery of a range of Government services and programmes and to contribute a regional perspective in their development.
Formed by the merger of the Yorkshire and Humber Association of Local Authorities and the Local Government Management Board, LGYH works alongside, and with the Assembly, on enhancing regional partnership working in scrutiny and planning. It also enables local authorities to work together and collaborate on issues of common purpose.
