Reviewing progress

Concordat signatories are required to carry out an annual review of progress with implementing the concordat. This is set out in objective 10.

The first annual review of progress was conducted during July 2005 using a template designed to enable concordat signatories to:

  • report on the organisation’s management and governance arrangements for implementing the concordat and monitoring progress
  • consider, review and report on the organisation’s progress in implementing the practices that underpin the 10 concordat objectives
  • highlight examples of notable practice
  • report future plans and identify future work priorities

Annual review template (pdf 89kb)

To view the individual responses of the organisations that were signatories to the concordat in July 2005, please contact each organisation directly by following the links below.

Key achievements during 2004/2005

These included the following:

  • concordat signatories are increasingly working together to develop more coordinated approaches to inspection, audit or review
  • all signatories make some use of existing datasets and are exploring opportunities to share information with other bodies
  • all signatories are working to share their plans for inspection, audit and review
  • user involvement is an integral part of most signatories’ ways of working
  • most signatories have adopted targeted approaches to conducting reviews
  • some signatories have well established approaches for benchmarking costs and performance
  • all signatories have arrangements in place to share draft findings and/or reports
  • all signatories have developed arrangements that ensured the selection and appointment of staff with suitable skills

Examples of notable practice associated with implementing the concordat

Areas for future development

Signatories needed to:

  • develop arrangements that lead to communication on a routine basis with service providers and users
  • develop approaches that facilitate more coordinated and rationalised approaches to collection of data
  • identify opportunities for the signatories to share learning
  • identify more opportunities to share information
  • enhance approaches for accounting for equality and diversity
  • coordinate approaches to sharing good practice between signatories
  • develop processes to measure the impact of the implementation of the concordat
  • we are taking these findings into account as part of our plans to develop a work programme for 2006.

Annual Review 2005 Summary of Findings (pdf 82kb)

A second annual review of progress is planned for summer 2006. Details of the review process will be posted here in due course.

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