Performance
A performance management framework is being developed building on existing strengths within the partnership and on good practice from within individual organisations and partnership delivery groups.
The performance management framework is focussing on the following elements:
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Partnership arrangements - sharing and building on good practice. These arrangements are explained in the who's who section
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Cleary defined roles and responsibilities - these responsibilities are laid out in the Local Area Agreement (LAA). We also have a partnership protocol that consolidates these.
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A shared performance management information system - the council's corporate performance team have developed a performance monitoring and reporting system that incorporates Slough's LAA and the council's service plans.
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Improving partnership working - only an effective partnership will be able to make the difficult decisions that will be needed to deliver LAA outcomes. Therefore measuring the effectiveness of Slough Forward is an important part of the Performance Management Framework. There are two aspects to this – evaluating the workings of the partnership itself and assessing the value added by Slough Forward.
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Developing better intelligence - Slough Forward is working towards making better use of information that is currently available, making more linkages between different pieces of information and developing new intelligence.
Slough Forward will be managing its performance through a variety of reports:
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Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement. Performance against these will be reported quarterly. Results of the 6 month and annual reviews will be made available to everyone. We will be using a simple traffic light system to clearly show whether the activities are complete, on target or behind target. Partnership Delivery Groups have developed action plans which will show how they are going to achieve their priorities and the milestones against which they will assess their progress.
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Slough Forward Improvement Plan which will set out the key things that the partnership will work on in the year.
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Partnership evaluation. Every year an evaluation of Slough Forward is carried out.
