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Guidance note - Making Quality Overview and Scrutiny Recommendations
Scrutiny recommendations should seek to make a real difference to local people and the services provided.
Recommendations that note a change or request further information should be carefully considered against whether they will resolve a problem and/or lead to changes.
To assist the Committee, the following criteria have been identified for quality recommendations.
Do the recommendations:
· affect and make a difference to local people?
· result in a change in policy and/or actions that improves services?
· identify savings and maintain/improve service quality? or
· objectively identify a solution.
Good recommendations should answer the below questions, to provide recommendations that can be easily monitored and evaluated in the future.
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Who is being asked to do it?
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To ensure ownership of the action
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What needs to be done?
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The recommendation needs to be clear and specific. |
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Why does it need to be done? |
This will help ensure the outcome is relevant and in the right context
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How will it be done? |
To include how it will be done and what the expected output is.
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Where does it need to be done/go?
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If it’s a meeting – where is it needed If it’s a report – where is it to go, who needs to see it |
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When does it need to be done?
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What is the timescale? To ensure an action is completed in good time. |