Information for local authorities: performance management
Best Value Performance Indicators
Best Value places a duty on local authorities to secure continuous improvements in the way they exercise their functions having a regard to a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness. All the local authorities with responsibility for waste management (and the six statutory joint waste disposal authorities) have been designated Best Value authorities under the Local Government Act 1999, and are subject to the duty of Best Value.
Best Value Performance Indicators are specified under Statutory Instrument 2005/598 under Section 4 of the 1999 Act - see Articles 10-12, and Schedules 8-10 for waste BVPIs.
Information explaining what the waste Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPIs) measure, and how they should be calculated can be found in the BVPI guidance for 2005/06. Please see also the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) amendments and clarifications to this guidance:
- BVPI guidance for 2005/06 (pdf on Department for Communities and Local Government website. Waste BVPIs begin on page 131 of the document)
- ODPM amendments and clarifications to guidance (pdf on DCLG website)
Defra has published Frequently Asked Questions (70 KB) to address queries raised about waste management BVPIs (last updated 22 August 2006).
The Audit Commission is responsible for the annual inspection and audit of all local authority performance under Best Value. Auditors assess authorities’ annual performance plans and validate Best Value Performance Indicators – including the two indicators which form the statutory performance standards for recycling and composting (BVPI 82a and b) – see below.
The Audit Commission's BVPI home page has links to latest news, information and amendments.
Submitting waste BVPI data
Following work by Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Audit Commission and Defra to reduce the data reporting requirements in respect of the Waste BVPIs (BV82, BV84, BV86, BV87 and BV91), all local authorities should use the existing WasteDataFlow system that has been configured to generate Defra’s Waste BVPIs for 2006/7 onwards. This means that authorities only have to submit data once through WasteDataFlow, and Defra will then download the waste BVPIs and send to the Audit Commission as a national dataset. A letter dated 29 September 2006 was sent to all waste authority chief executives.
Please see the following webpage for detailed explanations of how the BVPI calculations relate to WasteDataFlow questions: www.wastedataflow.org/htm/datasets.aspx#BVPI%20Guidance
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page opens, scroll down to “BVPI Guidance Factsheets”.
Best Value Performance Indicator Data for 2005/06
Best Value Performance Indicator Data for 2004/05
Data on all BVPIs for 2004/05 (and for previous years) can be accessed via the Data page on the Audit Commission website. The 2004/05 best value data is the first link on that page, to an Excel spreadsheet – for the waste BVPIs select the "Environment" worksheet tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet.
For further information on local authority performance, visit the ODPM's BVPI website.
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Page last modified: 21 June 2007
Page published: 9 March 2007