This function is crucial to the work of the West Partnership, supporting it to evaluate its activities in terms of each workstream and more widely through the achievement and attainment of learners across the eight authorities.

Lauren Johnston
Lead Officer
Local Authority Business Support
Areas of responsibility:
Operational support of all aspects of West Partnership Programme delivery, including:
• Administrative and business support to all officers
• Liaison with partners
• Programme and event support
• Working with WP Business Support team to manage aspects of programme delivery and evaluation

James Bowness
Data & Evaluation Support
Higher Education & Research
Areas of responsibility
• Data analysis, evidence collation, and reporting
• Event support and evaluation
• Research and resource creation
Highlight reports are submitted on a quarterly basis by each workstream which are used to update stakeholders on key activities and feedback. These are used to inform stakeholders of progress towards outcomes. An annual evaluation report is produced which includes workstream progress updates as well as more holistic evaluations, including the proportion of learners who attain at key performance measures. Tools to systematically evaluate the quality of partnership learning events and the longer term impact on participants and learners allow us to gather data and other evidence to demonstrate the added value of collaboration.
The Information and Data Officer provides programme wide support in all aspects related to data and information management. Research papers and briefs are produced which support the Partnership in ensuring our work is underpinned by a strong research and evidence base.