Performance
Beyond Best Value - The Corporate Improvement Team
Best Value at its most basic, is the improvement of
services to our customers. Whilst the Council must no longer carry
out best value reviews the Council drives improvements to its
services through improvement planning and through its performance
management framework.
It is because the Council is keen to continue to improve that
there became a need for a corporate support unit, and therefore the
Performance Improvement Unit was established. In 2006 the Council
renamed the unit 'Corporate Improvement Team' to reflect the
corporate support functions also carried out by the team. Here
are our responsibilities:
- To assist services in maintaining continuous improvement in
performance and to actively support the performance management
framework.
- Maintain overall responsibility for the
suitability and future development of the Council’s performance
management software system (Covalent) to provide an accessible and
practical system for recording and reporting performance
information
- To co-ordinate corporate policy development
for the council through and to undertake relevant projects
- To develop, manage and deliver a consultation
programme that supports the Council’s improvement programme
- To make a positive and effective contribution
towards Allerdale becoming an excellent Authority by 2011 through
improvement programmes.
- To manage and ensure provision of information for
Inspections and post inspection action planning
- To take a corporate policy lead on equalities
and diversity
- To take an active role in LAA and LSP
activities