Governance Structure
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A governance framework is a structure on which to build and develop strategies to reach agreed objectives and monitor performance.
In this section you can find out how ACAP Committee works.
ACAP Committee
The ACAP committee is a representative committee, responsible for the overall governance of the ACAP forum. It acts as the forums conscience in delivering objectives. Committee members are elected representatives from their region.
The committee is made up of 17 members; 2 joint chairs, secretary, vice secretary, treasurer, vice treasurer, 7 members from Scottish regions and 4 non executive members (non voting).
What does the committee want to achieve?
a. Systematic and sustainable change:
Systemic change: will involve executive and non executive members holding responsibility to provide audit, education and training, development opportunities and enable efficacy This will make available accommodation for continuous professional development.
Sustainable change: this projects initiatitives that attempt to develop principles of best practice at different levels of advanced practice to sustain a wider developmental agenda. Key components will include goals/purpose and rules/key drivers; thus enforcing this framework in the common understanding that change and sustainable developmets can be achieved.
a. Measurement of both early and long term goals:
Short term goals: Commitment to the mission statement and set objectives. Initialising and maintaining links with ACAP’s throughout Scotland, together with links with HEI’s, clinical leads and major stakeholders. Providing ACAP’s with bi-annual forum events and website facilities. Establishing audit of practice from the onset with analysis of questionnaires.
Long term goals: Ongoing links and working in collaboration with ACAP members, HEI’s, clinical leads and major stakeholders with a 5 years developmental programme.
a. Build a programme that is both realistic and ambitious
The Role of the Committee
The role of the committee is to:
a. Provide direction
b. Ensure the forum has a clear vision and strategic plan and is financially sustainable
c. Ensure that the right advice is taken before decisions are made
d. Act as guardians to the forum, ensuring that set objectives are adhered to.
e. Act as guardians for ACAP assets.
f. Ensure that full account is taken of the wider interests of ACAP
Committee Responsibilities
The Committee have the following responsibilities:
Finance
a. Production of annual expenditure reports. All expenditure will be documented and records kept of membership and any financial input from interested parties, with detailed annual expenditure reports being produced at AGM each September.
b. Agree the annual membership fees. Annual membership fees will be approved by executive and non executive members at the AGM.
c. Approve all expenditure and transactions. The Chairs of the committee have final approval of all expenditure and transactions in relation to ACAP
d. All transactions will be the responsibility of the treasurer & vice treasurer in accompanment with the chairs. The accounts will be held in a treasury account with 4 signaturies, with a minimum of two signatures at any given time. ACAP will also hold charitable status ensuring a robust safety net for all transactionable processes.
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Strategic
a. Maintain relationships between key organisations. The committee will be responsible for dissemination of information between ACAP and major stakeholders/HEIs.
b. Development and adherence to opperational policies/ Terms of reference. Operational policy and Terms of reference will be reviewed annually at the AGM
c. Adhere to Government policies and guidelines. And ensuring all ACAP members are kept up to date with the latest guidelines and policies
Performance
a. Assess ACAP’s performance and progress in meeting objectives, including the evaluation of operational effectiveness
b. Act as advocates of ACAP. The committee will ensure professionality and will act as a link between ACAP members and major stakeholders
c. Audit effectiveness of forum delivery. Audit and feedback on ACAP practices nationally. Forum objectives will be audited annually, additionally all forum events will be evaluated, with steering group devising, implementing and monitoring action plans arising from evaluations.
Strategic Plan
The strategic plan outlines ACAP’s objectives for the two years
a. Provision of an opportunity for education. The committee will be responsible for facilitating bi annual forum events which will have an educational component.
b. Providing links with major stakeholders
c. To provide an opportunity for ACAPs to network, through bi annual events and on line forums via web site.
Equality and Diversity.
Equality and Diversity.
In the interest in creating an environment that facilitates equality and diversity , ACAP Scotland recognises the differences of individuals in visible and non visible ways. ACAP Scotland will endeavour to create fairness and provide the same opportunities to all. This is in keeping with:
• Sex Discrimination act 1975
• Race Relations Act 1976
• Disability Act 1995
• Human Rights Act 1998