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Self-Assessment Tools: Supporting your continuous self-improvement journey in Sport and Cultural Services
The self-improvement agenda in local government is now well established. Within sport and cultural services we have a number of self-assessment tools which can help local authorities evaluate the scope, quality and value of the services provided.
The Local Government White Paper offers real opportunities for culture and sport to be placed at the heart of the community agenda and importantly calls for this to reflected in the way local authorities prioritise their work and aspirations for their communities. The White Paper also favours less external scrutiny and a greater emphasis on self-improvement – including the use of self-assessment tools.
The Existing Self-Assessment Tools
1) TAES Towards an Excellent Service
2) Arts at the Strategic Centre
Arts at the Strategic Centre has been developed by Arts Council England North East (ACE-NE) and IDeA to explore what it means for local authorities to put arts at the ‘strategic centre’. The model seeks to help position the arts at the centre of corporate policy making in addition to strengthening the same aspects of performance management that appear within TAES. Arts at the Strategic Centre is being piloted in Derby in the East Midlands.
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=5638646
3 ) Inspiring Learning for All
Developed by MLA, the Inspiring Learning for All aims to help museums, libraries and archives transform the way they deliver and engage users in learning. The tool is currently being developed to strengthen the performance management aspects of the framework and to develop wider community outcome measures.
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=5638660
Emerging Self-Assessment Tool
The New Single Improvement Tool developed in response to local authority feedback for a more coherent approach to improvement tools, was piloted from the end of June 2007 across eight local authorities. It will be rolled out nationally early in 2008. http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=7921068
