KPI - VSC Performance Agreement 2008
Mon, Jul 14, 2008; by Bill Coppinger.VSC LLEN PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT 2008
The VSC - LLEN performance agreement is the key document that the Central Ranges LLEN Board of Directors commits to support.
A set of Key Performance Indicators [KPI's] are agreed to in each planning cycle and a contract is established with the VLESC based on these indicators. All funded work and all planning relates DIRECTLY to the "Schedule 1 Agreement".
CONTEXT
The LLEN’s core role is the creation and development of sustainable relationships, partnerships and the brokering of initiatives between local education providers, industry and community.
The purpose of these partnerships is to:
- provide integrated planning which identifies gaps and articulates priorities and strategies including input into the following planning processes;
- Department of Education and Early Childhood Development regional plans
- Office of Training and Tertiary Education, TAFE Study Area Group
- Adult, Community and Further Education regional plans
- expand pathways to further education, training and employment and coordinate support on offer at the local level for young people, linked to local employment opportunity and skill needs;
- provide a local platform for implementing, integrating and linking Government initiatives including the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning, VET in Schools programs, Youth Training Guarantee, Technical Education Centres, Managed Individual Pathways and the Youth Transition Support Workers initiative (where appropriate);
- provide advice on gaps in the local provision of the Youth Guarantee; and
- provide advice on state-wide policy and program issues to VSC to improve local service delivery.
The LLENs’ role excludes the direct provision of services to young people.
The purpose of this exclusion is to maintain the capacity of LLENs to effectively perform their facilitation and brokerage role.
Schedule 1 provides a framework within which the LLENs and the VSC can agree on outcomes, performance measures and specific targets. It demonstrates the effectiveness and the impact that the partnerships facilitated by the LLENs have on improving the opportunities and outcomes from education and training for young people.
The performance measures and targets are to be based on each LLEN’s research of the local environment and also support the DEECD regional priorities
In undertaking this work, the LLENs will be making individual and collective contributions to the Government’s goals and targets for education and training articulated in “A Vision for Victoria to 2010 and Beyond, Growing Victoria Together”, particularly its targets:
- That by 2010, 90 per cent of young people in Victoria will successfully complete Year 12 or its educational equivalent.
- That the number of early school leavers who are unemployed after six months will decline.
STRATEGIC PRIORITY AREAS FOR LLENs
For 2008 the LLENs are required to deliver outcomes, measures and targets against two strategic priorities.
1. DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIPS, PARTNERSHIPS AND BROKERING OF INITIATIVES
The LLEN will facilitate partnerships and broker initiatives between education and training providers, other local service providers, local communities, industry and other LLENs.
The primary focus of the partnerships and initiatives is to improve education, training and employment outcomes for all young people 15 to 19 years old, with a particular focus on those young people who are at risk of disengaging, or who have already disengaged from education and training and are not in meaningful employment. In performing this task, LLENs are expected to achieve each of the four purposes described in the overview.
In performing this role LLENs are expected to support the development and maintenance of increasingly effective partnerships. Ideally this means that the LLEN supports and facilitates the development and maintenance of collaborative partnerships between the key stakeholders. To ensure LLENs remain a valued source of fairness, encouragement, and as a resource to all partners, LLENs refrain from service delivery activities.
In facilitating partnerships and strategic activities, the LLENs are expected to exemplify the characteristics in the Good Practice Framework developed jointly by the LLENs and the Victorian Skills Commission (VSC). The five characteristics of the Good Practice Framework are: collaborative partnerships, successful stakeholder engagement, changing culture and behaviour of stakeholders, sustainability and improved outcomes for young people.
The partnerships facilitated by the LLEN will need to be developed in a local context while at the same time focusing on the following initiatives:
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development regional priorities;
- Regional Youth Commitments;
- Youth Transition Support Workers (where applicable);
- TAFE Area Planning Groups;
- Young Learners in ACE Strategy;
- Blueprint for Government Schools (School Accountability Improvement Framework);
- Managed Individual Pathways (MIPs);
- School Based Apprenticeships (SBAs);
- Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL);
- VET in Schools (VETiS);
- On Track Connect;
- Maintaining the Advantage (Youth Guarantee, Skill Stores);
- Neighbourhood Renewal Program (where applicable); and
- Commonwealth initiatives (Local Community Partnerships, Youth Pathways Program etc).
It may be necessary at times for LLENs to work collaboratively with the same partners to achieve the best outcome for young people and local industry.
In articulating advice to the VSC on state-wide policy and program issues, LLENs are expected to liaise with other LLENs to provided consolidated advice.
2. GOVERNANCE
The LLEN will follow Good Governance principles.
Good governance is an essential element of LLENs achieving their purpose, goals, and objectives and is also necessary to meet all of the LLENs’ legal and legislative requirements.
Governance is about how Board members behave and carry out their responsibilities. Governance is the process by which organisations are directed, controlled and held to account, and is underpinned by the principles of openness, integrity and accountability.
Whilst every Board/Committee of Management is responsible for determining how it pursues good governance, it is expected that all LLENs will:
- continually review and develop their Strategic Plan;
- regularly update the data in their environmental scan;
- review their activities against the LLEN Good Practice Framework;
- continue to develop and share good practice within and between LLENs; and
- participate in the LLEN Satisfaction Survey and act on its results.
Contract Deliverables
The Targets identified in the following pages define the deliverables to be provided in 2008 under this contract in respect to:
- developing sustainable relationships, partnerships and brokering of initiatives; and
- good governance.
(These are to be developed by LLENs in consultation with DEECD officers)
The other deliverables include the:
- provision of advice on statewide policy and programs issues to the VSC through the LLEN Chairs Forum
- provision of advice on any gaps in the local provision of the Youth Guarantee; and
- engagement with the TAFE Study Area Groups and the ACFE planning processes.
A. DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIPS, PARTNERSHIPS AND BROKERING OF INITIATIVES
B. GOVERNANCE
