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Initial Report

This report explains the principles of the QMF Project. The project aims to establish the differences in the quality and quantity of the provision of public services at the level of the individual provider. The report defines the Third Sector, including its involvement in Public Services and available sources of data for measuring the added value of economic activities in the sector, whilst recognising the constraints of their availability.

It further explores the current reporting burden on data providers. It proposes developments and initiatives to be considered that will benefit the governance, regulations, commissioning and procurement of the provision of Public Services, by focussing on health and social care, pre-school education and childcare.

Interim Report

This report describes progress on the QMF project to design new quality measures so users of public services, from early years education to adult social care, receive a better service and better value for money.

This includes:

• development of a toolkit (the Adult Social Care OutcomesToolkit (ASCOT)) for measuring quality, to be used by commissioners and regulators in adult social care and proposals for using its results
• plans for a single measure of quality in pre-school education, using Ofsted data and data from the Millennium Cohort Study
• progress from the findings of the report on "Estimates of government funding to the Third Sector"
• results of consultation with the third sector and other stakeholders

The report explains how the project will fit with other approaches to local service commissioning, as set out in the National Audit Office report "Local Area Agreements and the Third Sector", and the National Indicators Set for performance measurement in local government.