How are we performing?

Measuring Plymouth 2020 - Local Strategic Partnership’s performance

Plymouth 2020 - Local Strategic Partnership, is developing methods for monitoring the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy and other key programmes. The LSP has the challenging role of bringing together public, private, voluntary and community partners to deliver social, economic and environmental improvements.

It must be able to demonstrate that the outcomes arrived at through working more effectively in partnership, are considerably greater than could be achieved by agencies working in isolation.

The partners will agree a shared performance management language, units of measurement and datasets, reporting systems and accountability. This will enable a clear picture of progress across the city in achieving targets relating to the Healthy, Wealthy, Safe and Strong and Wise theme groups of the P2020 Partnership.

In order for centrally-funded regeneration programmes such as Neighbourhood Renewal and Local Area Agreements to be successful in the longer term, the LSP must be able to demonstrate that initiatives are only being funded if:

a) there is a plausible link to outcomes, and
b) improvements in outcomes can be measured over time with clear supporting evidence.

Moreover, to ensure ongoing support from Partners and Government Office, the LSP itself must demonstrate value for money through its Self-Assessment and Improvement Planning processes. Performance management is also a key part of delivering the Sustainable Community Strategy.

Having a performance management framework in place will help to ensure that the LSP and its programmes will deliver measurable improvements for the priority groups of older people, children and young people, black and minority ethnic (BME) communities and people in deprived communities, in relation to its key outcomes.

Self Assessment

Plymouth 2020 - the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) has now undertaken three self-assessment and improvement planning processes, which are a core requirement for LSPs in receipt of the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF).

This means that Plymouth must assess itself against progress towards meeting the national neighbourhood renewal floor targets in the six theme areas of Crime, Health, Housing, Worklessness, Liveability and Education. It must also measure its progress on whether it delivered its previous Improvement Plan and its partnership management arrangements.

[Back to top]

Audit commission

The Audit Commission is an independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is spent economically, efficiently and effectively, to achieve high-quality local services for the public.

Plymouth 2020 has had three inspections into its work because the local authority is the accountable body for the partnership. We have improved how we work and our delivery over the past few years. To see what external auditors think of us, please view their reports below.

Documents

To view these documents you might need to download some software. Visit our downloads page for more information.

	Self assessment and improvement document 2007 - the self assessment results and improvement plan for 2007. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 2MB
	Self assessment and improvement document 2006 - the self assessment results and improvement plan for 2006. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 519.5KB
	Self assessment 2005 - self assessment results for 2005. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 114.3KB
	Audit commission report 2006 to 2007 - progress in partnership working through Plymouth 2020 Audit 2006 to 2007. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 553.9KB
	Audit commission report 2005 to 2006 - progress in partnership working through Plymouth 2020 Audit 2005 to 2006. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 88.9KB
	Audit commission report - working in partnership through Plymouth 2020 Audit 2004 to 2005. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 264.2KB

[Back to top]