The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2001 No. 724

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2001 No. 724
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2001

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	Made	6th March 2001
	Laid before Parliament	9th March 2001
	Coming into force	1st April 2001

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The establishment of a timetable for the preparation of a community strategy[10].
2	The level (if any) of the Commission for Racial Equality's standard for local government to which the authority conforms[11]
3	The number of complaints in a financial year to the Commission for Local Government Administration that were classified as "maladministration".
4	The percentage turnout for local elections.
5	The percentage of authority buildings open to the public in which all areas are suitable for and accessible to disabled people.
6	The number of types of transactions that can be delivered electronically as a percentage of the types of transactions for which electronic delivery is legally permissible.
7	The percentage of invoices for commercial goods and services which were paid by the authority within 30 days of such invoices being received by the authority.
8	The percentage of Council Tax collected.
9	The percentage of non-domestic rates due for the financial year which were received by the authority.
10	The percentage of senior management posts filled by women.
11	The average number of working days/shifts lost due to sickness absence.
12	Persons who leave the employment of the authority voluntarily as a percentage of employees in post.
13	The percentage of employees retiring early (excluding ill-health retirements) as a percentage of the total work force.
14	The percentage of employees retiring on grounds of ill health as a percentage of the total workforce.
15	The percentage of employees declaring that they meet the Disability Discrimination Act 1995[12] disability definition within the authority workforce compared with the percentage of the economically active disabled people in the authority's area.
16	The percentage of employees from minority ethnic communities within the authority's workforce compared with the percentage of economically active minority ethnic community population in the authority's area.
17	The number of employees declaring that they meet the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 disability definition as a percentage of the authority's workforce.
18	The percentage of employees from minority ethnic communities within the authority's workforce.
19	Percentage of minority ethnic uniformed staff and the percentage of minority ethnic community population of working age in the community.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The assessment by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) of the achievement by the police force of its efficiency target for the preceding year.
2	Number of complaints per 1,000 officers.
3	Percentage of complaints substantiated.
4	User satisfaction surveys in respect of the police services provided by the authority.
5	Percentage of new appointments to the police strength who are female.
6	Percentage of minority ethnic police officers in the force compared to the percentage of minority ethnic population of working age.
7	Number of working days lost through sickness per police officer and number of working days lost through sickness per civilian employee.
8	Percentage of police officers in operational posts; percentage of police officers in operational support posts; percentage of police officers in organisational support posts.
9	Number of medical retirements of police officers as a percentage of all officer numbers; number of medical retirements of civilian employees as a percentage of all civilian employees.
10	Actual net revenue expenditure per 1,000 population.
11	Percentage of Police Authority buildings open to the public which are suitable for and accessible to disabled people.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	Level of crime.
2	Fear of crime.
3	Feelings of public safety.
4	Total recorded crimes per 1,000 population and percentage detected.
5	Domestic burglaries per 1,000 households and percentage detected.
6	Robberies per 1,000 population and percentage detected.
7	Vehicles crimes per 1,000 population and percentage detected.
8	The number of offenders charged, reported for summons or cautioned for supply offences in respect of; (a) class "A" drugs (as classified for the purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971)[13] per 10,000 population; (b) of the overall figure the number of which relate to cocaine; and (c) of the overall figure the number of which relate to heroin.
9	The number of public disorder incidents per 1,000 population.
10	The percentage of all full files and percentage of full youth files provided to the Crown Prosecution Service both within pre-trial issue time guidelines, and which are fully satisfactory or sufficient to proceed.
	The percentage of all expedited or remand files and percentage of expedited or remand youth files which are fully satisfactory or sufficient to proceed.
11	The number of road traffic collisions involving death or serious injury per 1,000 population.
12	The percentage of responses to incidents requiring immediate response within local target response times (appropriate to rural and urban areas).
13	The percentage of 999 calls answered within local target response time.
14	The percentage of notifiable offences that were detected where a person has been charged or reported for summons or cautioned or the offence has been taken into consideration by a court.
15	The percentage of adults arrested referred to drug treatment programmes as a result of arrest referral schemes.
16	The number of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE)[14] stop/searches of white persons per 1,000 population and percentage leading to arrest.
17	The number of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) stop/searches of minority ethnic persons per 1,000 population and percentage leading to arrest.
18	The percentage of reported racist incidents where further investigative action is taken and percentage of recorded racially-aggravated crimes detected.
19	The percentage of reported domestic violence incidents where there was a power of arrest, in which an arrest was made relating to the incident, and of these what percentage involved partner on partner violence.
20	The percentage of reported domestic violence incidents that involved victims of a reported domestic violence incident in the previous twelve months.
21	The percentage of domestic burglaries where the property had been burgled in the previous twelve months.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	Individual schools budget as a percentage of local schools budget[15].
2	The expenditure on adult education per head of adult population.
3	Youth Service expenditure per head of population in the Youth Service target age range.
4	The percentage of primary schools with 25&percnt; or more of their places unfilled.
5	The percentage of secondary schools with 25&percnt; or more of their places unfilled.
6	The expenditure per pupil in local education authority schools in respect of nursery and primary school pupils aged under five.
7	The expenditure per pupil in local education authority schools in respect of primary school pupils aged five and over.
8	The expenditure per pupil in local education authority schools in respect of secondary school pupils aged under sixteen.
9	The expenditure per pupil in local education authority schools in respect of secondary school pupils aged sixteen or over.
10	The percentage of three-year olds receiving a good quality, free, early years education place in the voluntary, private or maintained sectors.
11	The average GCSE/GNVQ points score of fifteen year old pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority.
12	The percentage of fifteen year old pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C or equivalent.
13	The percentage of fifteen year old pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving one or more GCSEs at grades A*-G or equivalent.
14	The percentage of pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving Level 4 or above in the Key Stage 2 Mathematics test.
15	The percentage of pupils in schools maintained by the local education authority achieving Level 4 or above in the Key Stage 2 English test.
16	The percentage of adult education hours for which students attended.
17	Enrolments on adult education courses per 1,000 adult population.
18	The percentage of statements of special educational need issued by the authority in a financial year and prepared within 18 weeks, including exception cases[16].
19	The percentage of statements of special educational need issued by the authority in a financial year and prepared within 18 weeks, excluding exception cases.
20	The number of pupils permanently excluded during the year from all schools maintained by the local education authority per 1,000 pupils at all maintained schools.
21	The percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence in primary schools maintained by the local education authority.
22	The percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence in secondary schools maintained by the local education authority.
23	The percentage of schools maintained by the local education authority subject to special measures[17].
24	The percentage of permanently excluded pupils attending alternative tuition of; (a) Under 10 hours; (b) 10 or more hours but less than 25 hours; or (c) 25 hours or more.
25	The percentage of primary school classes with more than 30 pupils in years three to six.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The stability of placements of children looked after by the authority by reference to the percentage of children looked after on 31st March in any year with three or more placements during the year.
2	Educational qualifications of children looked after by reference to the percentage of young people leaving care aged sixteen or over with at least 1 GCSE at grades A*-G, or General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ).
3	The percentage of those young people who were looked after on 1st April in their seventeenth year (aged sixteen), who were engaged in education, training or employment at the age of nineteen.
4	Cost of services for children looked after by the authority by reference to the gross weekly expenditure per looked after child in foster care or in a children's home.
5	Cost of intensive social care for adults and older people by reference to the average gross weekly cost of providing care for adults and elderly people.
6	Intensive home care per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.
7	Older people (aged sixty five or over) helped to live at home per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.
8	The percentage of child protection cases which should have been reviewed during the year that actually were reviewed.
9	The number of looked after children adopted during the year as a percentage of the number of children looked after at 31st March who had been looked after for 6 months or more at that date.
10	Clients receiving a scheduled review as a percentage of adult clients receiving a service.
11	The percentage of items of equipment costing less than �1,000 delivered within three weeks.
12	Users/carers who said they got help quickly.
13	The percentage of people receiving a statement of their needs and how they will be met.
14	Assessments per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.
15	Users/carers who said that matters relating to race, culture or religion were noted.
16	The relative spend on family support by reference to the gross expenditure on children in need but not looked after by the authority, as a percentage of gross expenditure on all children's services.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The proportion of unfit private sector dwellings made fit or demolished as a direct result of action by the local authority.
2	Energy Efficiency - the average "Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP)" rating of local authority owned dwellings (the procedure for determining SAP ratings is described in the document entitled "Government's Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings" (1998 edition)[18]).
3	The proportion of private sector dwellings which have been vacant for more than 6 months at the beginning of the financial year and which are returned into occupation or demolished during that financial year as a direct result of action by the local authority.
4	The average weekly management costs per local authority dwelling.
5	The average weekly costs of repairs per local authority dwelling.
6	Local authority rent collection and arrears; proportion of rent collected.
7	Local authority rent collection and arrears; rent arrears of current tenants as a proportion of the authority's rent roll.
8	Local authority rent collection and arrears; rent written off as not collectable as a proportion of the authority's rent roll.
9	The proportion of homelessness applications on which the authority makes a decision and issues written notification to the applicant within 33 working days.
10	The average reletting times for local authority dwellings let in the financial year.
11	The percentage of rent lost through local authority dwellings becoming vacant.
12	The number of local authority dwellings receiving renovation work during the financial year as a proportion of the number needing renovation work at the beginning of that financial year.
13	The percentage of urgent repairs completed within Government time limits.
14	The average time taken to complete non-urgent responsive repairs.
15	Whether the authority follow the Commission for Racial Equality Code of Practice in Rented Housing published in 1995[19].

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	Security: whether the authority has a written and pro-active strategy for combating fraud and error which embraces specified initiatives including those sponsored by the Department of Social Security, which is communicated regularly to all staff.
2	The average cost of handling a Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit claim, taking into account differences in the types of claim received.
3	The speed of processing;
	the average time for processing new claims.
4	The speed of processing;
	the average time for processing notifications of changes of circumstances.
5	The speed of processing;
	the percentage of renewal claims processed on time.
6	The accuracy of processing;
	the percentage of cases for which the calculation of the amount of benefit due was correct on the basis of the information available for the determination for a sample of cases checked post-determination.
7	The accuracy of processing;
	the percentage of recoverable overpayments (excluding Council Tax Benefit) that were recovered in the year.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings which have been sent for recycling.
2	The percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings which have been sent for composting.
3	The percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings which have been used to recover heat, power and other energy sources.
4	The percentage of the total tonnage of household waste arisings which have been land-filled.
5	The number of kilograms of household waste collected per head.
6	The cost per square kilometre of keeping relevant land and relevant highways for which the authority is responsible, clear of litter and refuse; the terms "relevant land", "highway" and "responsible" shall have the same meaning as in section 86 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990[20].
7	The cost of waste collection per household.
8	The cost of waste disposal per tonne of municipal waste.
9	The number of collections missed per 100,000 collections of household waste.
10	The percentage of population resident in the authority's area which are served by a kerbside collection of recyclables or within 1 kilometre radius of a recycling centre.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The cost of highway maintenance per 100 km travelled by a vehicle on principal roads.
2	The cost per passenger journey of subsidised bus services.
3	The average cost of a working street light.
4	The condition of principal roads.
5	The condition of non-principal roads.
6	Road safety.
7	The number of days of temporary traffic controls or road closure on traffic sensitive roads caused by authority road works per kilometre of traffic sensitive road.
8	Local bus services (passenger journeys per year).
9	Damage to roads and pavements.
10	The percentage of pedestrian crossings with facilities for disabled people.
11	The percentage of total length of footpaths and other rights of way which were easy to use by members of the public.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The number of calls to fire attended: (i) total calls (excluding false alarms) per 10,000 population; (ii) primary fires per 10,000 population; (iii) accidental fires in dwellings per 10,000 dwellings.
2	The number of: (i) deaths; and (ii) injuries (excluding precautionary checks); arising from accidental fires in dwellings per 100,000 population.
3	Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in major cities and classified as "A risk" according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985[24].
4	Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in smaller cities/larger towns and classified as "B risk" according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
5	Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in smaller towns and urban residential areas and classified as "C risk" according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
6	Accidental fire in dwellings confined to room of origin in rural village areas and classified as "D risk" according to the categories set out in Fire Service Circular 4/1985.
7	The percentage of calls to fires at which national standards for attendance were met.
8	The number of calls to malicious false alarms per 1,000 population.
9	The average time taken by fire authorities to issue fire safety certificates.
10	False alarms caused by automatic fire detection apparatus per 1,000 non-domestic properties.
11	Expenditure per head of population on the provision of fire and rescue services.

Column (1)	Column (2)
Authority's 1998/1999 recycling and composting rate	2003/2004 Standard
5&percnt; or less	At least 10&percnt; of waste collected is sent for recycling or composting.
More than 5&percnt; but less than 16&percnt;	Percentage of household waste sent for recycling or composting is at least double that achieved for the financial year beginning with April 1st 1998.
16&percnt; or more[21]	At least 33&percnt; of household waste collected is sent for recycling or composting.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The percentage of new homes built on previously developed land.
2	Planning cost per head of population.
3	The number of advertised departures from the statutory plan approved by the authority as a percentage of total permissions granted.
4	The percentage of applications determined within 8 weeks.
5	The average time taken to determine all applications.
6	Score against a checklist of planning best practice as set out in the document published in December 2000 by the DETR entitled "Best Value Performance Indicators 2001/2002[22]."
7	The percentage of standard searches carried out in 10 working days or less.

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	Number of pupils visiting museums and galleries in organised school groups
2	The adoption by the authority of a local cultural strategy.
3	The cost per physical visit to public libraries.
4	Spending per head of population on cultural and recreational facilities and activities.
5	The number of physical visits per 1,000 population to public library premises.
6	(a) The number of museums operated by the authority; and (b) The percentage of that figure which are registered under the museums registration scheme administered by "Resource" (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council).
7	(a) The number of visits to/usage's of museums per 1,000 population (b) The number of those visits that were in person per 1,000 population