Outcomes Based Accountability |
| Outcomes based practice is a disciplined way of thinking
and taking action that can be used to improve the quality of life
in communities and to improve the performance of services and
agencies. | |
Outcomes based accountability starts with results and
works back to determine a means to achieving the results. It is a
process that gets practitioners, agencies, communities and their
partners from talk to action quickly through a series of exercises
and use of common language.
In 2006 the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) and
the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) sponsored a series of
interactive lectures across the country with one of the leading
exponents of OBA, Professor Mark Friedman from the Institute of
Fiscal Policy, Santa Fe, New Mexico, to begin to change the culture
of target chasing to one of delivering and demonstrating real
outcomes.
As a direct result of these lectures the first regional network
for Outcomes Based Accountability (OBA) was formed in the West
Midlands.
In April 2007 Telford & Wrekin Council and Shrophsire County
Council successfully gained Beacon Peer Support Funding to support
the work of the West Midlands Regional OBA policy network and to
implement and further develop OBA across both local
authorities.
Coordinating this work is the newly appointed Outcomes Based
Accountability Development Officer, Parvinder Chana.
For further information or to register your interest in the West
Midlands Regional OBA Policy Network please contact
Parvinder Chana
or Sharonlee
Young by email or telephone 01952 385521.
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| Please note - Some documents published before
1st December 2006 may contain incorrect contact
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