Using the Hallmarks to Support Effective Performance Management Across Partnerships

We expect that partnerships will want to use their performance against the statutory requirements and the Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships as part of their own performance regime. These can provide a valuable way of identifying the quality of the partnership working to sit alongside the quantitative data that they will use to measure their performance against their targets. We emphasise the importance of performance frameworks throughout this guidance. Partnerships will want to have their own performance framework to measure and monitor their progress against their objectives. We are exploring the possibility of introducing a self-evaluation process that would support partnerships as they monitor their own progress towards the Hallmarks.

Just as we expect partnerships to use the Hallmarks as part of their performance management framework, the Home Office will also use the Hallmarks as part of the work we do to review partnership performance. In particular, when we conduct Partnership Support Programmes - intensive work undertaken with partnerships that have performance issues – we will use the statutory requirements and the Hallmarks as part of the diagnostic work to review quality of processes and outcomes. The Government Offices and Welsh Assembly Government will also use them as part of their work in supporting partnerships.