The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards (England) Order 2005

(a)The level (if any) of the “equality standard”^(a) for local government to which the authority conforms; and

(b)The extent to which the authority complies with the duty to promote race equality^(b).

Of those employees of the authority who earn salaries in the top 5 percent of all authority employee salaries, the percentage that are—

(a)The percentage of authority employees that are disabled persons.

(b)The percentage of disabled persons in the authority’s area who are economically active.

(a)The percentage of authority employees that are from ethnic minority communities.

(b)The percentage of persons who are from an ethnic minority community in the authority area’s who are economically active.

Percentage of young people in the authority’s area aged 13 to 19 gaining:

in respect of their participation in youth work compared to the percentage of young people aged 13 to 19 who participate in youth work.

Of all of the special educational need statements issued by an authority in a financial year, the percentage which are prepared within 18 weeks–

The percentage of 14 year old pupils in schools maintained by the authority achieving a level of 5 or above in the Key Stage 3 test in–

(a)Percentage of leaders of integrated early education and childcare settings^(c) provided by the authority who have a qualification at Level 4, or above, of the National Qualifications Framework^(d).

(b)Percentage of integrated early years and childcare settings provided by the authority which have input from staff with graduate or post graduate training in teaching or child development.

In the case of care assessments made of the needs of persons aged 65 or over the average of (a) and (b).

from the time that the authority receives notification that an assessment is required.

In the financial year;

Satisfaction of tenants of authority residential accommodation with the overall service provided by their landlord, with results broken down by—

Satisfaction of tenants of authority residential accommodation with the opportunities for tenant participation in management and decisions making in relation to housing services provided by the landlord, with the results broken down by—

(a)The proportion of authority residential accommodation which was non-decent^(b) at the start of the financial year.

(b)The percentage increase or decrease of non-decent residential accommodation within the financial year.

Spending by local authorities on residential accommodation showing—

The extent (if any) to which the authority complies with:

The average length of stay in–

of households which include dependent children or a pregnant woman and where the applicant for accommodation is unintentionally homeless and in priority need for accommodation.

Of every thousand housing benefit and council tax cases administered by the authority in a financial year, the number of—

(a)The percentage of all housing benefit overpayments identified during the financial year which were recovered in the current financial year;

(b)Of the housing benefit overpayments identified in the financial year plus the existing housing benefit overpayment debt –

(i)the percentage recovered during the financial year;

(ii)the percentage written off as unrecoverable.

Of the total tonnage of household waste arisings –

sent by the authority for recycling.

Of the total tonnage of household waste arisings –

sent by the authority for composting or for treatment by anaerobic digestion.

Of the total tonnage of household waste arisings –

which have been used to recover heat, power and other energy sources.

Of the total tonnage of household waste arisings –

which have been land-filled.

The percentage of households in the authority’s area served by—

The level of—

in the authority’s area.

(a)The percentage on non-principal roads where maintenance should be considered derived from automated conditioned surveys of the roads surface.

(b)The percentage of non-principal roads where structural maintenance should be considered, derived from visual surveys of the road surface.

Road safety:

The average number of days taken to repair a street lighting fault, where

the street lighting maintenance is under the control of:

(a)The percentage, in the financial year, of reports of abandoned vehicles that are investigated within 24 hours of them being notified to the authority;

(b)Of the abandoned vehicles which the authority is legally entitled to remove, the percentage that are removed within 24 hours of that legal obligation arising.

(a)Number of sites for which sufficient information is available to decide whether remediation is necessary, expressed as a percentage of all sites of potential concern.

(b)Number of sites for which information about remediation may be required expressed as a percentage of all sites of potential concern.

In the current financial year, the percentage of applications determined in accordance with planning standards–

(a)Whether the authority submitted the local development scheme by 28th March 2005 and from that date maintains a three year rolling programme;

(b)Whether the authority met the milestones set out in the scheme.

(c)Whether the authority published an annual monitoring report required under section 35 of the Planning Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 by December of each year.

Per 1,000 population resident in the authority’s area, the number of–

(a)Total amount spent by the authority on general advice and guidance services provided by external organisations to residents of the authority.

(b)The percentage of the amount in (a) that is spent on organisations holding the Community Legal Service Quality Mark at General Help level and above^(b).

(c)Total amount spent on advice and guidance, which is provided directly by the authority to the public, in the areas of: housing, welfare benefits and consumer matters.

Number of visits to museums and galleries which are owned by the authority, housed in an authority owned building or receive at least 20 percent of their funding from the authority:

(a)Total number of areas in the authority’s area designated as conservation areas under section 69 of the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990^(b).

(b)The percentage of conservation areas in the authority’s area with an up to date character appraisal^(c).

(c)The percentage of conservation areas in the authority’s area in respect of which the authority has published proposals for management.

The number of calls to fire attended in respect of:

The number of:

per 100,000 population arising from accidental fires in dwellings.

The number of calls to malicious false alarms, per 1,000 population in the authority’s area:

by the fire and rescue services.

(a)False alarms, per 1,000 non-domestic properties in the authority’s area, caused by automatic fire detection equipment fitted in the premises.

(b)Number of the properties in (a) where the fire and rescue services attended the property more than once in the financial year.

(c)The percentage of all calls made to the fire and rescue services which are made in relation to a property where there has been more than one attendance by the fire and rescue services in the financial year.

(a)The number of deliberate primary fires (excluding deliberate primary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population in the authority’s area.

(b)The number of deliberate primary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population in the authority’s area.

(c)The number of deliberate secondary fires (excluding deliberate secondary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population in the authority’s area.

(d)The number of deliberate secondary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population in the authority’s area.

The percentage of fires attended in dwellings where: