the Manchester Partnership

State of the City reports 2008/2009

This suite of annual reports provides a comprehensive evidence base to inform decisions to improve the city. The reports also provide a progress update on the State of the City indicator framework within the Community Strategy and the Local Area Agreement.

• Story of the City 2008/09 (18 MB PDF)
  A general introduction and context to the detailed reports.
• State of the City 2008/09 (21 MB PDF)
  A position statement on Manchester’s current performance, assessing whether things are improving or not across key areas and priorities.
• State of the Wards 2008/09 (19 MB PDF)
  Focuses on the various neighbourhoods of the city with analysis of key Community Strategy indicators at a neighbourhood level.
• State of the City: Communities of Interest Report (18 MB PDF)
  Focuses on the city’s diverse population, analysing indicators from a community perspective.

A further report - “Future of the City” - will also be published, presenting the priorities for the coming year within the Manchester Partnership’s improvement programme.

(These documents can be viewed or download in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. To print off PDF files we recommend that you right click the PDF link and then “Save As” to your computer and print from there.)

Performance Management

The starting point for the partnership's priorities is the Manchester Community Strategy 2006-2015.

The partnership is responsible for delivering the three year action plan of the Local Area Agreement.  Performance is monitored and reported on in a number of ways.  These include the State of the City report; the State of the Wards report, Partnership Performance Reports and Quarterly monitoring reports. Feedback on how the thematic partnerships are delivering these high level targets is through quarterly monitoring reports to the Public Service Board. Challenge and scrutiny has been built into the Manchester Partnership through the work programme of Manchester's Overview and Scrutiny committees.