About the Policy and Performance Service

We are bringing together all of our policy, performance and research staff across the council into a new service, reporting to the Executive Director for Resources.

We are taking this radical step to improve the impact and quality of the work that we can deliver in the future. We want to be better at meeting the challenge of the council's ambitious service improvement agenda, as well as addressing national programmes such as the introduction of the Comprehensive Area Assessment.

The purpose of the Policy and Performance Service is to:

• enable the Council to understand whether the organisation is doing the right activities to the required standard
• support and take a pro-active role in improvement and change across the authority
• enable the Council to better understand its current and future environment, and be ahead of the curve on upcoming opportunities and pressures.

The new service will have around 100 posts, at a range of levels from support staff up to senior managers who will be working closely with the Council's Chief Executive and executive directors.

It will offer support and challenge for the full range of the Council's work, - including services for children and young people, adults, the environment, community safety, housing and regeneration. Policy and Performance staff will work closely with managers in all parts of the council, and in some cases will be embedded with these management teams.

The service will also be responsible for work with our partner agencies through Newham's local strategic partnership.

Many of the people in the new service will be current council staff, currently in the process of moving across to new roles. However, we also want to take this opportunity to bring in new talented people at all levels.