Tony Farley is an independent quality consultant, facilitator and evaluator with a great deal of experience in the voluntary and public sector. He is the lead author of PQASSO - Practical Quality Assurance Systems for Small Organisations and of ‘Quality First’ a quality system written especially for organisations without any paid staff, or with part-time workers, (now available in Russian, Serb - Croat and in Braille). He also played a major role in the design and development of QSM - quality standards manuals for care within a residential setting, Sheltered housing and Live at Home schemes.
He is the co-author of Quality in Play - QA for children's play providers (2001) which is a DfES and an Investors in Children accredited scheme, and the editor of the Quality Assurance System for Refugee Organisations (QASRO -2001).
These publications demonstrate Tony's unique skills, expertise and experience in designing practical and accessible systems that are user friendly. They are all nationally accepted models, that charities, umbrella organisations, local authorities and development agencies are finding useful tools in developing appropriate quality systems for their projects or member organisations.
Tony Farley (PQA) - Setting national standards for quality
provides:
- open and in house training on a wide range of management subjects
- consultancy services for organisation to help them develop their own quality, monitoring and evaluation systems
- produces/ and reviews policies and procedures, and helps prepare organisations for accreditation to national standards
- independent evaluations and reviews
Tony Farley has unrivalled experience that can help if you are:
A local authority setting up quality assurance programmes for voluntary organisations on service level agreements, grant aid or co-ordinating local regeneration, Compact and Change Up development schemes
An umbrella organisations seeking to develop a quality system which will support your member organisations
A national organisation offering a range of different services that have to meet a variety of different standards e.g. QuADS, Quality Mark and Supporting People
A national, international or local Development Agency , looking for tools to support the development of voluntary and community groups, small businesses and social enterprises.
For more information contact Tony Farley.