The Local Government (Best Value Performance Indicators) (Wales) Order 2000

Article 3

SCHEDULE 3 SOCIAL SERVICES INDICATOR

Indicator Number	Description of indicator	Details of indicator
BVPI 49	Stability of placements of children looked after.	The percentage of young people looked after at 31 March with three or more placements during the year. The denominator means the total number of children who were looked after at 31 March. Exclude from the count any children who were looked after on that date under an agreed series of short-term placements (under the provisions of Reg.13 of the Arrangement for Placement of Children (General) Regulations, 1991). The numerator of the children defined above means the number who had three or more separate placements (as defined by the Statistical Form SSDA903 collection on children looked after by local authorities)during the year ending 31 March. Count all placements, regardless of duration, including placements of less than 24 hours if they form part of a longer period of care. Include any placements that were already open on 1 April at the beginning of the year, and any which were open on 31 March at the end of the year. Include all placements regarded as “temporary”; the only exceptions being the following special cases: – Temporary periods on holiday or in hospital. Other temporary absences of seven consecutive days or less, where the child then returned as planned to the previous placement.
BVPI 50	Educational qualifications of children looked after.	The percentage of young people leaving care aged 16 or over with at least 1 GCSE at grades A*– G, or General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ). The denominator means the number of young people who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March at the age of 16 or over. Include all those in this age group leaving care regardless of how long they had been looked after before ceasing. But do not include young people who ceased after having been looked after during the year only under an agreed series of short term placements. The numerator means of these young people, the number who on leaving care had obtained at least 1 GCSE at grade A*– G or GNVQ. Include qualifications gained before the young person was looked after or from examinations sat while the young person was looked after, even if the results were announced after the young person ceased to be looked after. Do not include qualifications gained from examinations sat after the young person ceased to be looked after. Include GCSE short courses, part one or full GNVQs at either foundation or intermediate level, and GNVQ language units. Do not include National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).
BVPI 51	Costs of services for children looked after.	Average gross weekly expenditure per looked– after child in foster care or in a children’s home. The denominator means the total number of weeks which children spent in foster care and children’s homes during the year ending 31 March. Under children’s homes include community homes, voluntary homes and hostels and private registered children’s homes. Exclude from the count any placements that formed part of an agreed series of short term-placements (under the provisions of Reg. 13 of the Arrangement for Placement of Children (General) Regulations, 1991). The calculation is to be based on the total number of days of care divided by 7. The numerator means the gross expenditure on children looked after in foster care and children’s homes during the year ending 31 March. Obtained from Revenue Outturn 3 return (RO3) lines 11 and 17. Gross expenditure is defined from RO3 as the sum of employee costs (column 1) and running costs including joint arrangements (column 2) minus other income including joint arrangements (column 5).
BVPI 52	Cost of intensive care social care for adults.	Average gross weekly cost of providing care for adults and elderly people. The numerator means the gross expenditure on residential and nursing care and home help/care for all adult client groups and elderly people (£000's) during the year ending 31 March. Obtained from Revenue Outturn 3 return (RO3) lines (32 to 34 +38 +48 to 50 + 54 + 64 to 66 + 70 + 84 to 86 + 90). Gross expenditure is defined from RO3 as the sum of employee costs (column 1) and running costs including joint arrangements (column 2) minus other income including joint arrangements (column 5). The denominator means the total number of weeks all adult client groups and elderly people were supported in residential and nursing care and no. of households receiving intensive home care (obtained from form AS2). Note: the numerator includes expenditure on low intensity home care (it is not possible to exclude using the RO3) but the denominator does not include the number of people receiving such care. This results in a slight disincentive to provide low intensity home care, balanced by BVPI 54.
BVPI 53	Intensive home care.	The numerator: means the number of households receiving intensive home care (5 or more contact hours) during a survey week. Obtained from form AS2. The denominator: means the population aged 65 or over ( in 000's).
BVPI 54	Older people (aged 65 or over) helped to live at home.	The numerator means Elderly people aged 65 and over helped to live at home. The denominator means Population aged 65 and over (in 000s). Form AS2 Item 2.1 sum of three age band Columns for people 65 and over.
BVPI 55	Clients receiving a review.	Clients receiving a review as a percentage of adult clients receiving a service. The numerator: means the total of all clients receiving a scheduled review during the period (either services or by social non-social services staff). The denominator: means the total number of clients receiving services during the period.
BVPI 56	Percentage of items of equipment costing less than £1000 delivered within three weeks.	Excludes equipment and adaptations that require structural work but includes those that only need simple fitting (e.g. bolting to a wall or a floor). Adaptations provided by housing departments and connections to alarm systems should be omitted Each item costing under £1,000 (including the cost of installation) should be counted and all items supplied during the financial year should be included regardless of when ordered. The period begins when a decision to supply the equipment is made and ends when the equipment is satisfactorily installed in the opinion of the local authority. Authorities may exclude cases where the time limit could not be met because of the client’s actions or absence (e.g. when a person was in hospital or on holiday etc).
BVPI 57	Users/carers who said they got help quickly.	Percentage of people surveyed who said that they felt that they received the help they needed quickly. (Personal Social Services Performance Assessment Framework indicator D36). This will be obtained from user satisfaction to be surveys carried by local authorities.
BVPI 58	Percentage of people receiving a statement of their needs and how they will be met.	The number of adults getting a service in the financial year who have received by 31 March a description of what their needs are so far as those services are concerned and how those needs will be met; divided by the total number of people receiving a service. There should be one percentage for this indicator.
BVPI 59	Assessments per head of population.	The number of assessments of service users aged 65 or over per head of population aged 65 or over. The numerator: means the total of the number of clients aged 65 and over with completed assessments and those clients with assessment terminated. The denominator: means population aged 65 and over (in 000's). The relevant cells from Form AS2.
BVPI 60	Users/carers who said that matters relating to race, language, culture or religion were noted.	The percentage of people surveyed who said that they felt that matters relating to race, language, culture or religion were taken into account by social services in the provision of the help they needed. This will be obtained from user satisfaction surveys to be carried by local authorities.
BVPI 61	Relative spend on family support.	Gross expenditure on children in need but not looked after, as a percentage of gross expenditure on all children’s services. The denominator means the gross expenditure on all children’s services for the year ending 31 March, as recorded on the Revenue Outturn 3 form (RO3). The numerator means that part of the denominator that represents expenditure on children in need but not looked after. This is calculated as the sum of the following items on the RO3 return: youth justice, provision of children under 8 years of age, family centres, adoption allowances, other non-residential, home care/home help and 50% of leaving home care expenditure. It also includes a proportion of the expenditure on senior management, care management/social work and overheads.Gross expenditure is defined from RO3 as the sum of employee costs (column 1) and running costs including joint arrangements (column 2) minus other income including joint arrangements (column 5).