A guidance package to help Community Planning Partnerships in developing or reviewing their Single Outcome Agreements has been issued.
The package includes Guidance, Key Messages and the second version of the Menu of Local Outcome Indicators, which is designed to help CPPs with the preparation of their Single Outcome Agreements by the end of February 2009, for agreement with the Scottish Government by the end of May 2009.
This Guidance reflects the learning acquired from the first phase of SOAs and updates the guidance provided for local government in February 2009.
The key changes which have been made in order to update this Guidance - and to promote the essential strategic focus for SOAs - are:
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Revision of text to better show how SOAs fit with the National Performance Framework while demonstrating their strategic focus;
- Identification of issues which are being jointly addressed by COSLA, Scottish Government, SOLACE, Audit Scotland and the Improvement Service;
- Revision of the SOA format to highlight the importance of the integrated area profile to the development and presentation of the SOA;
- Revision of the SOA template to encourage fewer outcomes and indicators and clear links to the area profile.
The second Menu of Local Outcome Indicators builds on the indicators in Version 1 which were deemed by Councils and CPPs to be most practically useful at present to measure local outcomes, based on the frequency with which indicators were used in the first phase SOAs.
Minimal changes have been made from version 1 to version 2. Several new indicators have, however, been included in version 2 based on the extent of their usage in the first phase SOAs.
A project to further develop SOA indicators is currently in progress. This is led by SOLACE and facilitated by the Improvement Service, working with Councils, ACPOS, CFOAS, NHS Chief Executives, the Office of the Chief Statistician and Analytical Services Divisions within the Scottish Government and Professional Associations. It will review and further develop the indicators, with an improved menu being provided in December.
Source: Improvement Service
