Test Valley Partnership: How
it Works
The overall individual aim of Test Valley Partnership is
to:
Create a community where everyone has the opportunity to fulfill
their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.
To deliver this aim, a successful community
strategy must have:
- a long-term vision for the area focusing
on the outcomes that are to be achieved;
- an action plan identifying shorter-term
priorities and activities that will contribute to the achievement
of long term outcomes;
- a shared commitment to implement the
action plan and proposals for doing so;
- arrangements for monitoring the
implementation of the action plan, for periodically reviewing the
community strategy and, and for reporting progress to local
communities.
The Test Valley Partnership has a process devised to ensure
successful Community Plans are developed.
The Outcomes Framework
The Outcomes Framework (also known as the Results Based
Accountability Framework) is a way of thinking and action
planning that LSP's can use to identify the priority needs of their
community. This identification process will improve the
well-being of the area, by concentrating efforts and limited
resources on the priorities, thus increasing the baseline of
society as a whole.
The Outcomes Framework Process
In 2006 a decision was made by the Partnership to review the
Community Plan. Hampshire LSP practitioners network have
promoted a simple process for community planning called the
'outcomes framework'. This is a structured approach which
poses seven questions that help to simplify the process of
strategic planning, at a delivery level.
Below is a diagram which illustrates the seven
questions in more detail:
(pdf. version of the
outcomes framework diagram available here.)