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) has replaced the earlier Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA). From that date external performance monitoring is based on a new set of PI’s is being reported for the first time in 2008/09, divided into national and local indicators which focus on locally identified priorities. The National Indicators (NI’s) replace the Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI’s). National performance on these indicators is reported annually by the Audit Commission as part of the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).
Useful links:
Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)
Indicators with prefix NI represent national indicators. The new National Indicator Set contains 20 indicators that are determined by measuring citizens' views and perspectives collected through a single Place Survey administered by all local authorities every two years. Questionnaires were sent to around 3000 residents at the end of September 2008.
The local indicators are made up of a mixture of completely new indicators and those which were previously BVPI’s and local indicators, providing a measurable set of PI’s which represent Horsham District Council’s and the individual department’s priorities. These are prefixed with a code relating to the department: for example HS01a – Housing Services.
Because the indicator set has changed so radically, there are very few PI’s where comparisons with previous years can be made. Definitions of national PI’s where they relate to the same service area, for example Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit and Waste Management have also changed, so are no longer comparable.
Targets for 2008/09 have been set where possible, but they are in the main very tentative, and there are a number of the new indicators where, until a full years’ data is available, it is difficult to set a benchmark.
Please click on the following links to view:
2008/09 Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI’s) (242kb)
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