DE007 Audit of the BVPP and BVPIs1

audit 2004/2005 Audit of the Best Value Performance Plan and Best Value Performance Indicators Devon County Council INSIDE THIS REPORT PAGES 2 - 6 • Introduction and background • Objectives and scope • Audit approach • Main conclusions • The way forward • Acknowledgement • Status of our reports to the council PAGES 7 - 11 Appendices • Appendix 1 - Matters arising from our review of Performance Indicators • Appendix 2 - Action plan Reference: DE007 Audit of the BVPP and BVPI’s Date: January 2005 audit 2004/2005 SUMMARY REPORT Introduction and background Best Value is one element of the Government’s programme for the modernisation of local government. It is intended to provide a framework within which Best Value authorities can improve service standards and performance and consists of three main elements: • a Best Value Performance Plan (BVPP) which reports on authorities’ performance and plans for improvement; • a set of nationally prescribed Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPIs) through which the comparative performance of local authorities can be monitored; and • a process of systematic review by authorities of their services and functions. Our opinion on the Council’s BVPP was unqualified last year. Despite this we made the following recommendations relating to the BVPP and BVPIs: • BVPP should comment on issues raised in the full range of audit reports, not simply our report on the previous BVPP; • BVPP should provide ...