The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2001

Article 3

SCHEDULE 1 GENERAL CORPORATE HEALTH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Indicator Number	Description of indicator
1	The establishment of a timetable for the preparation of a community strategy(1).
2	The level (if any) of the Commission for Racial Equality’s standard for local government to which the authority conforms(2)
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(3) 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.

(1)

See section 4 of the Local Government Act 2000 c. 22 of 2000.

(2)

“Auditing Council Performance against the Commission for Racial Equality’s standard for Local Government Auditing for Quality” compiled by Stella Dadzie and produced in association with the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (1990) 112pp ISBN 1 85442 220 0.

(3)

1995 c. 50. For the definition of “disability” see section 1.