This resource provides background and guidance on collaborative quality assurance together with a checklist of quality assurance elements for you to review and action plan against.
This presentation accompanies the "Shared Services in Further Education: A briefing paper for principals and governors of FE Colleges" resource, which is designed to fast track your strategic awareness around the emerging opportunities for shared services in further education as a means to deliver efficiencies, service improvement and organisational resilience.
This research report aimed to identify the support required by the FE sector to take forward Shared Services, through secondary research of existing developments and semi structured interviews with significant Shared Services stakeholders.
This presentation sets out a shared services toolkit developed by Barrow Borough Council, in conjunction with Allerdale Borough Council, Carlisle City Council, and South Lakeland District Council, drawing on lessons learnt from developing two new shared ICT services.
This briefing is designed to fast track your strategic awareness around the emerging opportunities for shared services in further education as a means to deliver efficiencies, service improvement and organisational resilience.
This template is adapted from the AOC pocket guide to shared services and will help you action plan against a number of "dos and don'ts" guiding principles for effective shared services. You may also wish to review the separate "Pocket guide to Shared Services in Your College" which explores these issues in more detail.
This five-part activity pack can be used with partners and partnerships who are considering sharing services as part of their partnership arrangements. It is based on source material from the associated report “Shared Service: Further Education-Centric’.
This guide provides you with ten tips on how to successfully initiate innovative shared service solutions in your College and the wider further education community, with the ultimate goal of saving money for your College to use on frontline services.
Building on Part A of the resource, this diagnostic tool allows partners to delve deeper into the different perspectives they may hold of strategic leadership and governance, in order to begin developing a shared understanding of strategic leadership and governance in a partnership context.
This report was commissioned by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and the Association of Colleges (AoC), to review governance and strategic leadership in the whole FE system in England and in particular the implications of the proposed move towards shared regulation and the introduction of the machinery of government changes in 2010.
