Monitoring and Evaluation

The Research & Intelligence Unit is involved in providing a range of support for Worcestershire County Council and its partner agencies regarding monitoring and evaluation.

This encompasses high-level monitoring against output and outcome targets for policy and strategy delivery, through to detailed evaluation programmes of activity.  Many research and dissemination techniques are used, incorporating quantitative and qualitative techniques.  This section of the Research website provides a number of examples of current and past monitoring and evaluation programmes.

Worcestershire Local Area Agreement

A Local Area Agreement is a three-year agreement that sets out the priorities for a local area. It is negotiated with Government, represented by Government Office West Midlands, and a local area, represented by local authorities and their partners working through the Worcestershire Partnership. Worcestershire has two Local Area Agreements - Worcestershire’s first LAA (2006 - 2009) was signed by the Worcestershire Partnership in April 2006. This agreement has been superseded by the new LAA (2008 – 2011), except for the reward targets which continued until 2009.

Worcestershire National Indicator Set

The Department for Communities and Local Government published the “Performance Framework for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships” in April 2008, which contained 189 performance indicators that apply across a range of organisations. In two-tier areas, the upper tier authority (Worcestershire County Council) has ultimate accountability for the co-ordination of the performance reporting of all indicators, under the auspices of the Local Strategic Partnership (Worcestershire Partnership).

Worcestershire Children’s Fund

Click on the heading above to find out more about the Worcestershire Children's Fund including information on cultural mapping and the Monitoring and Evaluation Report (Impact Assessment) – 2003-06.

Youth Inclusion Support Programme Report

The R&I Unit has undertaken a major evaluation of the Youth Inclusion and Support Programme (YISP) on behalf of the Youth Offending Service. This was released in late summer 2007.

For more information e-mail: pmcdonald@worcestershire.gov.uk or alternatively phone Phillipa McDonald, Principal Research Officer, on 01905 822 022.