Improvement and Innovation Board Terms of Reference
Improvement and Innovation Board Objectives:
· To ensure councils have the help they need to innovate and improve their performance by working in partnership with sector bodies and other national level improvement organisations;
· To deliver an effective programme of sector-led support, including peer challenges, productivity, leadership development programmes, tools to share comparative performance data, sharing good and innovative practice, in line with the Grant Determination Letter with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) on sector led improvement.
· To provide a strategic framework within which other LGA Boards provide improvement support so that it is coherent and coordinated at the point of delivery.
· To maintain an oversight of performance in the sector and support councils facing performance challenges; and;
· To influence the performance framework within which local government operates to achieve significantly less inspection, intervention, and central targets and support stronger local accountability through effective scrutiny, greater transparency and user assessment. DLUHC grant funding for improvement will only be used for the purpose set out in the Grant Determination Letter and will not be used to lobby parliament, government or political parties.
The membership detailed below has been appointed effective from 1 September 2023 through to the end of the 2023/24 meeting cycle on 31 July 2024. The Equalities Advocate for the Improvement & Innovation Board for 2023/24 is Cllr Derek Bastiman.
Support officer: Jonathan Bryant. Email: jonathan.bryant@local.gov.uk - 07464652746
Postal address:
Member Services
18 Smith Square
Smith Square
London
SW1P 3HZ
Phone: 07464652746
Email: jonathan.bryant@local.gov.uk