Additional content will need to include:
• Arrangements for monitoring and reporting
• The equalities impact assessment
• The risk assessment
Reporting
Performance accountability is based on answering two sets of interlocking questions. These are: How much did we do? and How well did we do it?
The performance measures which are most important are those in the bottom right hand quadrant of the table.
Monitoring
The CYPP monitor tales place in September, 6 months after the start of the financial year. Information from the detailed contributory plans feed into the CYPP monitor.
Those bodies responsible for the contributory plans require a monitoring report for scrutiny. The Children and Young People Senior Officer Group also receives monitoring reports.
The commissioners for the CYPP, the Strategic Partnership, receive a monitoring report on the CYPP.
This is a check against the delivery of identified action and any early indictors of their effectiveness. It provides the opportunity to refine actions in the light of any new information. This may mean stopping activities which have already had the desired impact, a slight change in direction, or a rethink of agreed actions which are clearly not working.
Evaluation
An annual evaluation of the CYPP is undertaken which begins in January, in order that it can feed into the design of the following year’s implementation plan. Evaluation seeks to answer whether we have achieved what we set out to do in improving outcomes for children and young people. Additionally it needs to answer whether or not we have provided value for money, using the resources available to us efficiently and effectively.
The evaluation of contributory plans feeds into this evaluation.
Common reporting
The development of common reporting cards will support the presentation of performance information in an accessible format.
To cover:
Performance data: trends in outcomes, the quantity and quality of change for the targeted population.
Service quality: how much did we do, how well did we do it.
Perceptions: children and young people, parents
Resources: value for money
and:
How are we really doing against medium and long term outcomes?
Changes to the story
Priorities
Contributions from partners
Next steps.
This will require the development of central datasets in response to the requirements identified in the initial analysis.