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>	Finance, governance, performance & review
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Contents page

Welcome to the Governance & Sponsorship Guidance

1 What are the roles and responsibilities in the delivery relationship?

• Roles and responsibilities
  • What are the roles and responsibilities in the delivery relationship?
  • Roles and functions of partnership working
  • Types of delivery partners
  • Involving delivery partners in designing good policy outcomes
    • Customer experience
    • Delivery landscape
    • Delivery mechanisms
  • Choosing a delivery partner
    • Business processes and customer interactions
    • Geographical coverage
    • Value for money
    • Assurance of delivery
  • How do I create a delivery partner?
    • Outside the Defra network
    • Inside the Defra network
  • How do I work with delivery partners?
    • Outside the Defra network
    • Inside the Defra network

2 How do I deliver policy through an existing body?

• Delivering policy through an existing delivery body

3 How do I create a new delivery body to deliver policy?

• Creating a new delivery body to deliver policy
• Executive NDPBs and Public Corporations:
• Launching a new executive NDPB or public corporation
• High-level timeline and checklist
• Initial approval and set-up
  • Legislative issues
  • Procedures for classifying a new body
  • Creating a shadow body
• Governance and financial issues
• Key strategic and planning documents
• Internal control systems
• Accountability and reporting mechanisms
• Financial preparedness
• Organisational issues
  • Staffing issues
  • Key staff
• Executive Agencies:
• Launching a new executive Agency
• High-level time line and checklist
• Ministerial approval
• Governance and financial issues
• Governance Structure
  • Key strategic and planning documents
  • Internal control systems
  • Accountability and reporting mechanisms
  • Financial preparedness
• Organisational issues
  • Staffing issues
  • Key staff
• Manage the process of creating a new delivery body
  • Who creates a new Executive NDPB or Public Corporation
  • Who creates an Executive Agency
• Who do I involve?
  • The corporate centre
  • Communications
  • Openness, transparency and accountability
    • Boards and committees
    • Public meetings
    • Meetings and minutes
    • Publication schemes
    • Codes of openness
    • Other methods

4 What is the governance, finance, performance management and review framework for the delivery relationship?

• Executive NDPBs and Public corporations:
• What is the governance, finance, performance management and review framework for the delivery relationship
  • Management Statement and Financial memorandum
  • Accounting Officer appointment and responsibilities
• Financial management aspects of the delivery relationship
  • Resource and funding framework
  • Formal reporting requirements and operational monitoring
  • Accounts direction
  • Annual pay remit
  • Procurement and contracts
• Further financial management guidance
  • DAOs, RABIGs and other Treasury correspondence
  • Links to useful accounting and reporting guidance
  • Whole of Government Accounts
• Audit Process
  • Fraud
• Annual reporting
  • Formal reporting requirements and monitoring
  • Annual reporting cycle
  • Annual Reports – laying procedures
  • Annual reporting - Desk instructions
• Review requirements
• Executive Agencies:
• Corporate governance and financial management
  • Business planning, agreeing objectives and targets
  • Business planning and annual reporting timetable (4.6.5)
  • Producing Annual Reports and Accounts
  • Audits
  • Chief Executive’s performance bonus
• Contingency planning and emergency response (all public bodies)
• Capital projects: appraisal and monitoring

Page last modified: 16 July 2007
Page published: 8 May 2006

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