Toolkits - Self assessment - Online form

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Standard: The organisation has a clear approach to delivering outcomes relating to child poverty reduction

Number	Key Feature	Score (1-6)	Strengths to build on	Areas to develop
1	The organisation has clear policies and strategies for the reduction of Child Poverty
2	Policies, strategies and business plans have been developed utilising the best available evidence from a range of sources
3	Under represented or priority groups have been effectively included in the service planning process
4	Child poverty is reflected within community planning arrangements and there is a clear line of sight between the Community Plan and Corporate priorities, service objectives and individual objectives.
5	A mechanism to monitor progress on implementing the strategy is in place.
6	There is widespread staff ownership of the vision, values and objectives for the approach to reducing child poverty.

Standard:Leaders have a high level of awareness and understanding of child poverty and its impact on services for children and young people.

Number	Key Feature	Score (1-6)	Strengths to build on	Areas to develop
1	There is a high level of awareness and understanding of child poverty and its impact on services for children and young people
2	Members and top managers regard Child Poverty as a cross cutting issue and have advocated the contribution their agency has to addressing child poverty and motivated others to engage in reducing child poverty
3	There is a clear vision and objectives for addressing child poverty
4	Leaders have actively participated within the corporate management arrangements which has resulted in better understanding of child poverty & cross cutting agendas and influencing corporate decision-making
5	Leaders welcome and can demonstrate how internal scrutiny and external challenge has assisted in continuous improvement of the child poverty agenda
6	Leaders have created a culture of collaboration, innovation and cross departmental planning and working to address child poverty

Standard: The organisation has a culture of performance management in addressing child poverty

Number	Key Feature	Score (1-6)	Strengths to build on	Areas to develop
1	Child Poverty objectives and targets have been set and fully embedded into the performance management arrangements
2	Indicators for child poverty objectives and targets are appropriate, broad ranging and sufficient to enable the organisation to assess its progress against its objectives
3	Adequate and compatible systems are in place across all council services and partner organisations, for generating the information needed to measure performance on shared outcomes and priorities
4	Internal and external partners have utilised the child poverty performance information to improve services and delivery in order to achieve agreed outcomes
5	Members have actively helped drive improvements There are clearly defined, effective and complementary roles in the performance management system for the executive, scrutiny and ward councillors
6	The organisation has dealt with poor performance effectively and recognised and celebrated good performance

Standard: There robust partnership arrangements in place to deliver on Child Poverty

Number	Key Feature	Score (1-6)	Strengths to build on	Areas to develop
1	People throughout the organisation fully understand and are aware of how partnerships help reduce child poverty
2	People working in partnerships are clear and confident about their role and responsibilities to the partnership and the organisation and have been empowered to take decisions on behalf of the organisation
3	The partnership have a shared vision and understanding of child poverty within the locality and recognise its cross cutting nature
4	Partners pool resources to maximises benefit through informal co-ordination, jointly-funded projects and posts through long term mainstream budget pooling.
5	Key Members of the partnership champion child poverty issues and support partner organisations in understanding the relevance of Child Poverty to their priorities and how they can contribute to multi agency delivery.
6	Service priorities and budgets are closely aligned to the children and young people partnership’s child poverty priorities.

Standard: Appropriate resources have been consistently matched with Child poverty priorities

Number	Key Feature	Score (1-6)	Strengths to build on	Areas to develop
1	There is a systematic approach to risk management
2	Elected and Partnership Members are fully aware and understand the costs of child poverty and its placing in the priority setting processes of the council and partnerships.
3	The organisation has a good track record of strategically commissioning and procuring goods and service to support the child poverty agenda
4	The potential leverage and external funding and investment in child poverty initiatives has been recognised and exploited
5	The organisation can demonstrate the impact of attracting external funding and other resources to achieve its aims and objectives in relation to child poverty
6	The organisation can demonstrate the involvement of Children and Young People in Budget Planning Processes