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LAA Archive
Hot off the press, here is the final submission of the new LAA as at 16th May 2008
Congratulations to Bill Basra from Warwickshire County Council, who has recently been appointed as the LAA Manager. Bill will begin his new role on 7th April 2008.
In accordance with the agreed timetable we have submitted to GOWM our latest list of Priorities drawn from the National Indicator Set - March 31st 2008
New LAA Priorities as at 31st January 2008, submitted to Government Office West Midlands
Mid Year Review The Government Office West Midlands (GOWM) undertook a mid year review of the Warwickshire LAA with reference to half year performance outputs. The review commenced in October 2007 once the Quarter 2 performance information was available and was completed by the end of November 2007.
The expectation is that there will be no formal end of year ‘review and refresh’ process but that this will become the negotiation of the ‘new LAA’. The mid year review therefore presents the opportunity to start the process of considering the new LAA for 2008.
For more information on the mid year review please click on the information below.
Mid Year Review
Mid Year Review & the New LAA Report for the Public service Board (PSB) 25th September 2007
LAA Dry Run Negotiations
Negotiating New LAA's
The New Performance Framework for Local Authorities & Local Partnerships, Single Set of National Indicators has also been published by the DCLG
Single Set of National Indicators
Consultation on the National Indicator Set
Please click on the link below to see Warwickshire County Council's response to the Consultation on the National Indicator Set - the detail of which is outlined below.
Response to the Consultation
Letter from WCC's Chief Executive, Jim Graham
Consultation on the National Indicator Set
The Government is now consulting on the detailed definitions of the new National Indicator Set for implementation in 2008/09. The consultation seeks our views on the methodology, frequency of reporting and data source of each individual indicator, but not on whether individual indicators should be included in the new set of national indicators - see link below.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/indicatorsdefinitions
The Public Service Board will be asked at its next meeting on the 29th November whether a collective Warwickshire response would be welcomed. As a minimum, it might be beneficial to share responses to ensure there are no significant contradictions.
With this in mind we would like to ensure that the County Council's response to the consultation paper encapsulates the thoughts and opinions of our key Members, Officers and Partners.
The deadline for responses to the Audit Commission is 21st Dec 2007 and to enable the consolidated response to be considered by our Cabinet in December we will need to move pretty fast to undertake the necessary analysis.
We are therefore proposing the following four stage process which we need your help to complete by Wednesday 28th November.
1. Identify the relevance of the new measures to your services
We have created a summary table detailing all the indicators, which are to be consulted on, and added a column detailing who we believe will be best placed to comment on the individual indicators.
We recognise that there are some overlaps in other blocks, where there is shared interest. Therefore, please look at each indicator individually as it may have some impact on your area of work.
NI Set Contacts
2. Evaluate the individual measures you feel are relevant to your service (table 1)
A template has been developed for review of each individual indicator. This should be used at your discretion, for the indicators that you feel are relevant to your service. For each indicator we are asked to comment on the following:
- The clarity of each technical definition
- Whether the technical definitions as drafted will lead to any unintended consequences
- Whether there any definitions that will not work in practice
- Whether the right spatial level of reporting has been defined for each indicator
- Which indicators would be suitable for disaggregation
- Any other comments on the templates, including suggestions for improvement
- Whether any indicators should be disaggregated for ethnicity, gender, age etc
NI Response Form
3. Provide general feedback on the whole basket on measures (table 2)
If you have any views on the overall basket of indicators i.e. its impact upon the authority, and does it demonstrate a reasonable true picture of our performance etc. these would be welcomed.
General Comments
4. Retaining the old Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI) (table 3)
On a general note we would be very interested in your views on whether you intend to retain any appropriate existing BVPI's for local use. (If possible, we would appreciate any views you may have by 5th December)
Retention of Existing BVPI's
We would be grateful if you could complete and return the response forms to Mandeep Kalsi (mandeepkalsi@warwickshire.gov,uk) by Wednesday 28th November.
Your input and contribution to this process is invaluable and we look forward to your response.
Cross Cutting Themes from the LAA 2007/2008
Although the LAA is structured around 6 blocks, the issues being tackled are connected across the agreement, so activity in one block may well contribute to the outcomes in other blocks.
Six cross cutting themes have been identified which will impact across the LAA, these are:
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