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Key principles of Peer Collaborative Improvement
  • The peer collaborative improvement process is led by the host local authority.
  • In engaging in Peer collaborative improvement, each local authority remains responsible for its own development and outcomes. Peer reviewers will advise, support and challenge through a solution-focused approach to improvement.
  • Sharing practice and learning across Scottish local government should help make best use of the expertise across the system to support improvement.
  • As a sector, local government is facing significant and well documented challenges. Within the sector, different local authorities face their own unique challenges as a result of their geography, demography and local priorities. One of the opportunities of peer collaborative improvement is the chance to support each other in addressing these common issues, and improving the overall performance of the sector.
  • Success is dependent on creating and sustaining high levels of mutual trust, confidence, cooperation and collaboration to allow effective peer-led improvement to take place.
  • The peer collaborative improvement team will respect the confidentiality of all documentation provided by the host local authority, as well as the content of all meetings and focus groups.
  • Local government’s well-established approaches to the LGBF and self-assessment are key cornerstones of our peer collaborative improvement approach, in addition to internal council performance management frameworks.
  • Peer collaborative improvement is one strand of Local Government’s approach to sector-led improvement. It will sit alongside and complement other improvement work taking place locally, regionally and nationally.
Emily Lynch - Programme Manager, Performance Management & Benchmarking

Phone: 07747 711310

Email: emily.lynch@improvementservice.org.uk

Mairi Edwards - Peer Collaborative Improvement Project Manager

Phone: 07827 230905

Email: mairi.edwards@improvementservice.org.uk

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