CORE QUALITY CRITERIA: PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS

Main aspects important for quality assurance in the case of a specific quality area (i.e. Partnerships and networks)

QUALITY INDICATORS (CORE AND ADDITIONAL/DESCRIPTORS)

What might indicate quality in the partnership?

EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT INDICATORS

What evidence is available to support the inclusion of the indicators?

EXAMPLES FROM CASE STUDY:

Limerick City of Learning

• Coverage: all necessary partners are involved to address needs
• Partnership involvement reflects needs and challenges identified (community involvement)
• Partnership involvement reflects responses required to needs (services and policy making involvement)
• Check breadth of involvement against breadth of strategic goals

Limerick city of Learning developed a framework and set of templates so that learning initiatives in the city could be ‘audited’.

This allowed for different initiatives to classified, in terms of their sector and the partner responsible for them

City of Limerick: Classification Index of Local Initiatives