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- Local government
- Strategies and reviews
- Strong and prosperous communities
- Key policies
- A new performance framework
A new performance framework
If we are to continue to improve public services we need to give local authorities and their partners the freedom and powers to meet the needs of their communities and tackle complex cross-cutting issues like climate change, social exclusion and anti-social behaviour.
We are proposing a radical simplification of the performance framework. There will be around 35 priorities for each area, tailored to local needs through the Local Area Agreement, plus the Department for Education and Skills' statutory attainment and childcare targets. Instead of the many hundreds of indicators currently required by central government there will be a single set of about 200 outcome based indicators covering all important national priorities like climate change, social exclusion and anti-social behaviour.
In addition we will put in place a new regime for dealing with monitoring, support, assessment and intervention, building on the success of Comprehensive Performance Assessment. The new regime - Comprehensive Area Assessment - will be a more proportionate risk-based regime which will cut bureaucracy and allow more targeted support or intervention when things go wrong.
To find out more, please download the chapter, 'A new performance framework' via the link opposite.
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