Building on ideas developed for the East Midlands Development Agency by Anne Green, Institute for Employment Research at Warwick University, we developed a skills performance indicator framework for the West Midlands.
Using the framework we can monitor trends and make comparisons between the West Midlands and other English regions (and sub-regions).
Reports, datasets and posters updated for the 2007 annual review of performance are available on the downloads tab.
Developing a skills performance indicator framework
The framework is built around three tiers of indicators:
Tiers 1 and 2 of the framework are now fully populated with data and updated for 2007.
A tier 2 skills performance index has also been developed and fully updated, providing both a summary measure of regional performance and analysis of the 'scale of the task' to close the gap with the England average and the best performing region for each indicator.
Significant progress has been made in developing a series of tier 3 'operational' indicators that track the success of partners in tackling the region's skills issues and problems. This indicator set, in consultation with partners in the Regional Skills Partnership, has been fully developed during 2008 and the current framework for tier 3 is also fully updated.
Reports
2007 Review of Performance Report (PDF, 720KB)
2007 Review of Performance Dataset (MS Excel, 89KB)
2007 Review of Performance Charts (PDF, 189KB)
Posters
Summaries of the current performance of the West Midlands region within the context of the Skills Performance Framework:
Poster 1: Overview of the West Midlands Skills Performance Indicators Framework (PDF, 53KB)
Poster 2: Skills Performance Index 2003-2007 (PDF, 466KB, A1 poster size)
Poster 3: Closing the gap: The scale of the task (PDF, 67KB)
Poster 4a: Tier 3 and tier 2 demand side indicators (PDF, 88KB)
Poster 4b: Tier 3 and tier 2 supply side indicators (PDF, 91KB)
Background papers
How the Skills Performance Framework and the Skills Performance Index were developed:
Review of regional skills performance - tier 3 operational indicators (PDF, 162KB)
Improving economic performance - the role of skills (PDF, 169KB)
Performance index technical paper 14 July 2006 (PDF, 220KB)
RSP skills performance management framework proposal 24 March 2006 (MS Word, 220KB)