Universities are committed to offering high-quality higher education that delivers value to students and taxpayers. This means ensuring students can access higher education, whatever their background, circumstances or location. It also means delivering courses that develop the skills and knowledge our economy needs to drive local and national growth. Franchised provision is one way in which universities are doing this. A franchised programme, as defined by the Student Loans Company (SLC), is one that is fully or partly designed, approved and owned by a provider with degree-awarding powers (the lead provider) but is delivered by another provider (delivery partner). The authors believe franchised provision plays an important role in supporting growth and opportunity. However it is critical that these partnerships are stable, of high quality and provide good value for money. The framework presented in this report, developed by Universities UK (UUK), GuildHE and the Committee of University Chairs (CUC), has been designed to support universities in achieving this. This framework is designed to work alongside the range of existing guidance that supports universities in managing their partnerships, including the advice and guidance issued by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) on partnerships in its UK Quality Code for Higher Education, the QAA Quality Compass on anticipating risk in partnerships and the guidance of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) on the delivery of learning opportunities with others.