The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Plans and Reviews Order 1999

Content of best value performance plans for the financial year 2001 and each financial year thereafter

4.—(1) Best value authorities must include in their best value performance plan for the financial year 2001 and each financial year thereafter, all the matters specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of article 3 of this Order and in paragraph (2) below.

(2) The matters referred to in paragraph (1) above are–

(a) a summary of the authority’s assessment of its performance in the previous financial year with regard to best value performance indicators, where applicable;

(b) a comparison of that performance with the authority’s performance in previous financial years;

(c) a comparison of the authority’s performance as summarised in accordance with paragraph (a) above, with the performance of other best value authorities in previous financial years;

(d) a summary of its assessment of its success in meeting any best value performance standard which applied at any time in the previous financial year;

(e) a summary of its assessment of its progress towards meeting any best value performance standard which has been specified but which does not yet apply;

(f) a summary of its assessment of its progress towards meeting any best value performance target;

(g) a summary of any plan of action to be taken in the financial year to which the plan relates for the purposes of meeting a best value performance target;

(h) a summary of the basis on which any best value performance target was set, and any plan of action was determined, in relation to a function reviewed under section 5 of the Act and articles 5 and 6 of this Order, in the previous financial year.