LOCAL PERFORMANCE PLAN
All effective organisations measure their performance in order to know how well they are doing and to identify opportunities for improvement. One of the ways of doing this is by reporting annual progress on national and local performance indicators.
Local Councils work with the Audit Commission to stimulate significant improvement in the quality of data and the use of information. From 1 April 2008 the Audit Commission’s new Corporate Area Assessment Framework (CAA) replaces the earlier Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA). From that date external performance monitoring will be based on a set of new national indicators and a set of local indicators focusing on locally identified priorities.
Useful links:
Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)
This is therefore the final year that this set of indicators is required to be collected and reported to Government. From 1st April 2008 these indicators have been superceded by the new National Indicators and Horsham District Council’s local indicators.
For 2007/08 there were 116 performance indicators reported in total; 69 of which were national best value indicators, and 51 of which had comparative data available from the 2006/07 previous years data submitted. The following table shows a comparison of the 2007/08 performance against the previous year’s performance:
| Indicator | 2006/07 | 2007/08 |
|---|---|---|
| Below Target | 42.5% | 42% |
| On or Above Target | 57.5% | 58% |
| Of these: Top Quartile | 40.0% | 39% |
Please click on the following links to view:
the 2007/08 Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI’s) (166kb) and
Local Performance Indicators (LPI’s) (118kb).
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