Council performance

Statutory Performance Indicators (SPIs)

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The Accounts Commission has a statutory power to define the performance information that councils must publish for performance comparison and benchmarking purposes.

Through the Commission's statutory direction on performance reporting, guidance is set out for what council’s should cover in their public performance reporting.

There are 2 headline indicators where we will report a range of information on our Performance Pages:

Statutory Performance Indicator 1: Improving local services and local outcomes

• Our performance in improving local public services, both provided by ourselves and in conjunction with our partners and communities.
• Our progress against the desired outcomes agreed with our partners and communities by means of the Single Midlothian Plan

Statutory Performance Indicator 2: Demonstrating Best Value

• Our assessment of how we are performing against its duty of Best Value, including self-assessments and service review activity, and how we have responded to this assessment.
• Our Audit assessments (including those in the annual audit) of our performance against our Best Value duty, and how we respond to these assessments.
• Our Assessments from other scrutiny and inspection bodies, and how it has responded to these assessments.