Delivering High Quality Public Services and Improving Value for Money

Local government performance data from the Audit Commission.  The data is broken down into best-value indicators, with the result, target, average, regional average and average by authority type.  It is also categorised by type, such as corporate health, environment and transport.

The Audit Commission provides a range of data for profiling Croydon, including local quality of life, residents' and service users' views, inspectorate judgements on services, funding and spending, voluntary and community sector contribution and business sector contribution.

The Commission for Social Care Inspection provides detailed information on Croydon's star rating for Adult Social Services. The rating is for the period from 2002 to 2007, along with a link to the 2007 Summary Report.

TalkAbout Croydon is a panel of 1,500 representative residents who provide the council with reliable feedback on important Croydon issues.

The Benefit Fraud Inspectorate produced the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate report for March 1999 and the follow-up inspection in July 2000.  The report is in PDF format.

The Audit Commission's value-for-money profile tool is designed to support judgements about councils' effective use of resources. It helps councils and auditors to address the value for money Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE) in use of resources assessments: This tool should be used as the starting point for considering how well the council's overall and service costs compare with others in any assessments of value for money.

Most of the information contained in the VFM profile refers to costs (£); that is, the money that councils plan to spend on their services each year. To make it easier to put a council's spending in context, information about spending is expressed relative to the council's population.

A comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) scorecard for Croydon, provided by the Audit Commission. The 2007 scorecard outlines Croydon?s improving status, the use of resources and service performance for the year.

Audit Commission reports for Croydon, from 2001 to 2005, range from supporting people to transport management and maintenance.

The Local Government Analysis and Research (LGAAR) is the research and analytic function that supports the Local Government Association and partner bodies. The LGAAR produces a monthly one stop publication which keeps you informed about key issues and developments in research impacting on, or of interest to, local government.

The 'London Profiler' set up by UCL, gives users a map of London, in which they are able to chose, from a list, the local authorities within London.  There are catergories on the right hand side of the map, such as IMD, which users can chose to display data, across London or in specific boroughs.