Common use of Performance Management Principles Clause in Contracts

Performance Management Principles. Westminster City Partnership recognises the importance of ensuring that effective performance management processes are in place to enable successful monitoring and evaluation of the Local Area Agreement (LAA). A Performance Management Framework (PMF) for the LAA has been developed by the LAA Steering Group and endorsed by the Westminster City Partnership (WCP). This is attached at Annex 6. The WCP is fully committed to the principles of the LAA and its members accept that they owe a duty of good faith to each other and to the City Council specifically, as the Accountable Body for the LAA. The following key principles have governed the development of the LAA PMF: • The WCP partners have agreed that they will ensure that all of their internal procedures and safeguards are followed in relation to any funding received from whatever source and that they will submit relevant performance information to the City Council to facilitate the monitoring of the LAA. • Performance information will be produced which is timely, transparent, user friendly and aids accountability. • A single Partnership Performance Management System will be developed over time, across all local partners, to streamline administrative systems for key performance and financial monitoring. • There will be an annual review of the LAA to take stock of progress against the PMF, resource availability and whether to build in changing/new priorities. Responsibility for overseeing the performance management of the LAA overall will lie with the WCP. Accountability in terms of the lead organisation(s) for delivery/achievement of each performance indicator/target, and collection and provision of relevant performance information is highlighted in the LAA PMF. The City Council will retain responsibility for: • Co-ordinating the collection of performance information from partners. • Producing performance monitoring reports for the LAA Partnership Board and the WCP. • Submission of performance management reports to Government Office for London (GoL). • Producing an annual review of LAA performance. The WCP understands that the LAA PMF and the WCP PMF will need to be combined and that a separate WCP PMF is no longer required. The WCP will consider how to put this into practice within the first year of the LAA and is working on the assumption, agreed by GoL, that a full WCP PMF for 2005/06 will not be sought.

Performance Management Principles. Westminster City Partnership recognises the importance of ensuring that effective performance management processes are in place to enable successful monitoring and evaluation of the Local Area Agreement (LAA). A Performance Management Framework (PMF) for the LAA has been developed by the LAA Steering Group and endorsed by the Westminster City Partnership (WCP). This is attached at Annex 6. The WCP is fully committed to the principles of the LAA and its members accept that they owe a duty of good faith to each other and to the City Council specifically, as the Accountable Body for the LAA. The following key principles have governed the development of the LAA PMF: • The WCP partners have agreed that they will ensure that all of their internal procedures and safeguards are followed in relation to any funding received from whatever source and that they will submit relevant performance information to the City Council to facilitate the monitoring of the LAA. • Performance information will be produced which is timely, transparent, user friendly and aids accountability. • A single Partnership Performance Management System will be developed over time, across all local partners, to streamline administrative systems for key performance and financial monitoring. • There will be an annual review of the LAA to take stock of progress against the PMF, resource availability and whether to build in changing/new priorities. Responsibility for overseeing the performance management of the LAA overall will lie with the WCP. Accountability in terms of the lead organisation(s) for delivery/achievement of each performance indicator/target, and collection and provision of relevant performance information is highlighted in the LAA PMF. The City Council will retain responsibility for: • Co-ordinating the collection of performance information from partners. • Producing performance monitoring reports for the LAA Partnership Board and the WCP. • Submission of performance management reports to Government Office for London (GoL). • Producing an annual review of LAA performance. The WCP understands that the LAA PMF and the WCP PMF will need to be combined and that a separate WCP PMF is no longer required. The WCP will consider how to put this into practice within the first year of the LAA and is working on the assumption, agreed by GoLXxX, that a full WCP PMF for 2005/06 will not be sought.