Performance Information Group
What is the Purpose of the "PIG"?
- To provide assurance, advice and support to NPS Information and Performance Management Staff
- To provide a "critical friend" to the NOMS Performance Management Unit (PMU)
- To provide a resource for Regional Information/Performance Forums
How does the "PIG" work?
Members of NPRIE who identify Performance or Information Management amongst their interests are automatically signed up to become members of the PIG.
The work of the PIG is carried out virtually using the NPRIE Online Community facility via the NPRIE website.
If further discussion is required then existent or new Regional Information and/or Performance Forums will be used to do detailed work.
What other services can the "PIG" offer?
The PIG offers an Area perspective into centralised NOMS Information/Performance FAQS via PMU. It is anticipated that both the IPPF FAQs and the SLAs will have such FAQs. This will minimise the efforts of PMU in trying to answer the same questions over and over from various areas. It would also help ensure a consistent response to all areas.
The PIG may also develop a roll in training. Already some areas have bilateral agreements to train one another's staff and the provision of a central bank of skills would help facilitate this further. The PIG could also Audit training need, thereby signalling potential national level requirements. A role in quality assuring any such national training materials could be held by the PIG.
The final role of the PIG would be as an independent advisor to the Data Standards and Reporting Group DSRG or any successor.
Launching the PIG
The proposal for the PIG was tabled at the NPRIE AGM in Wakefield on 27th Nov 2007 and as a consultation document at the NPRIE conference in April 2008. Performance and Information Staff from around the Country have been very supportive of the concept and so it is now being rolled out.
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