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Single Outcome Agreement;
Please see below a link to the Improvement Service in Scotland. The organisation is focussed on improving the efficiency, quality and accountability of public services in Scotland through learning, sharing knowledge and delivering improvement solutions. It contains good links to materials relating to the single outcome agreements and lists SOAs currently published.
http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/core-programmes/single-outcome-agreements-/
ANNEX 3
From the Chief Executive, Rory Mair
16 October 2008
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To : Chief Executives
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Dear Colleague,
‘ASKS’ CONTAINED IN SINGLE OUTCOME AGREEMENTS
At its last meeting, the High Level Group on Single Outcome Agreements considered a report summarising the broad categories of ‘asks’ in the Single Outcome Agreements for 2008 and considered how best to deal with them. That report was copied to you by the Improvement Service on 22 September. This was followed up at the regular bi-monthly meeting between COSLA’s Presidential team and the Scottish Government represented by John Swinney and Fiona Hyslop.
The agreed approach is as follows.
· Strategic Asks
Arrangements are in place for pursuing the small number of asks which are common across Councils and of strategic importance, requiring a national response from the Scottish Government. The mechanism for this is the bi-monthly political meeting and its officer group in the form of the SOA High Level Group.
· Local Asks
These are requests for locally distinct action from the Scottish Government. ‘Asks’ which are for individual Councils only will be taken up by the appropriate Scottish Government Director in their liaison role with Councils over their SOAs.
· Policy Asks
These are ‘asks’ in relation to issues where COSLA and the Scottish Government already have arrangements for their joint consideration at national level, for example, health inequalities.
· Funding Asks
‘Asks’ of a financial nature do not have a route for being progressed insofar as they seek additional resources when the local government settlement has already been agreed.
Your Scottish Government Director will advise you of the Scottish Government’s response to, or handling of, each of the ‘asks’ in your first SOA. You will already be aware that the SOA High Level Group is concerned to promote a strategic focus for CPP SOAs for 2009-10 onward. It is therefore likely that any new ‘asks’ will be expected to demonstrate and evidence that they are critical to the overall delivery of the SOA.
I hope this information on the agreed approach is helpful. I’m happy to discuss this further and in addition there is a meeting planned for the High Level Group by the end of October so I’m very happy to provide any feedback which Councils may have.
Yours sincerely,
Barbara Lindsay
Strategic Director
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