...Steven Van de Walle; Wouter Van Dooren; Chris Game Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide, at a particularly significant point in its short history, an overview of a unique system of performance management to which all principal local authorities in England have been subject for the past...

...Zoe Radnor; Mike Kennerley; Andrew Brown Purpose To provide an overview of the various ways in which performance management is being implemented in England's primary schools. Design/methodology/approach A combination of documentary analysis, participant observation and audio‐taped interviews...