Best Value Performance Indicators

 

The following tables summarise our performance against the national indicators and locally developed indicators and, where available, provide some comparative data. They include our future targets and a short commentary/action statement for each indicator.

KEY
Target achieved
Target not achieved
A dash indicates that no target was set as the Best Value Performance Indicator was set in 2005-06.

Out

turn

Improve

ment

Tar

get

Finance

04-05

05-06

%change on year

05-06

06-07

07-08

08-09

BV150: Expenditure per head of population on providing a fire and rescue service 

£28.95

£31.85

10%

Within budget

£35.04

£38.54

£42.93

BV8: % of invoices for commercial goods that were paid for by the fire authority within 30 days of being received

87.3%

91.1%

4.4%

90%

93%

95%

97%

LPI 120: Economic cost of fire £108.8m

£99.8m

8.3%

-

£96.6m £90.0m £83.5m
Community Response
BV144: % of accidental fires in dwellings confined to room of origin

92%

91%

1%

92%

93%

94%

95%

L2a (BV145a): % of calls to fire at which the number of appliances met standards of fire cover

100%

100%

0%

100%

100%

100%

100%

L2b (BV145b): % of calls to fire at which the number of riders met standards of fire cover

76.49%

73.15%

3.34%

82%

85%

90%

95%

L2c (BV145c): % of calls to fire at which attendance times met standards of fire cover

93.94%

94.18%

0.24%

94.5%

95%

95.5%

96%

L119: No of extrications from road traffic collisions

201

183

9%

-

175

165

147

Community
Prevention - Comprehensive Performance Assessment targets

BV142ii: No of calls to primary fires per 10,000 population

29.3

28

4.4%

34

27

25.2

23.4

BV142iii: No of calls to accidental fires in dwellings per 10,000 dwellings 

13.7

15.4

12.7%

13

13

12

11

BV143i: No of accidental fire-related deaths per 100,000 population

0

0.14 

140% 

0.40 

0

0

0

BV143ii: No of accidental fire-related 
injuries per 100,000 population

6.8 

7.05 

3.5% 

5 

5.75

5.3

5.0

BV146i: No of calls to malicious false alarms not attended per 1,000 population

N/A 

0.5

0

- 

0.47

0.44

0.41

BV146ii: No of calls to malicious false alarms attended per 1,000 population

0.47

0.32

31.9%

0.57

0.30

0.28

0.26

BV149i: False alarms caused by automatic fire detection per 1,000 non-domestic properties 

124.6

122.7

1.5%

140.6

115.2

113.4

111.6

BV149ii: No of those properties with more than one attendance 

N/A

396

N/A

-

370

356

336

BV149iii: % of calls which are to a property with more than one attendance

N/A

75%

N/A

-

70%

67%

64%

BV206i: No of deliberate primary fires (excluding deliberate primary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population 

4.60

4.52

1.7%

-

4.34

4.14

3.93

BV206ii: No of deliberate primary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population

9

8.6

4.4%

-

7.9

7.8

7.2

BV206iii: No of deliberate secondary fires (excluding deliberate secondary fires in vehicles) per 10,000 population

21.3

19.1

10.8%

-

18

17

16

BV206iv: No of deliberate secondary fires in vehicles per 10,000 population

1.0

0.81

20%

-

0.68

0.59

0.55

BV207: No of fires in non-domestic properties per 1,000 non-domestic proiperties

25.8

25

3%

-

23.9

23

22

BV208: % of people in accidental dwelling fires who escape unharmed without fire and rescue service assistance

N/A

98%

N/A

-

98.1%

98.2%

98.3%

BV209i: % of fires in a dwelling where a smoke alarm had activated 

N/A

39%

N/A

-

45%

50%

56%

BV209ii: % of fires in dwellings where a smoke alarm was fitted but did not activate

N/A

12%

N/A

-

10%

8%

7%

BV209iii: % of fires in dwellings where no smoke alarm was fitted 

N/A

49%

N/A

-

45%

42%

37%

Community
Protection
L7 (BV147): 
Average time in days taken to issue a fire safety certificate

 19

15.7

 17.4%

30

N/A

 N/A

N/A

Equalities - national targets
BV2a: Level of the Equality Standard for Local Government to which the authority conforms

2

2

0

3

3

3

3

BV2b: The duty to promote race equality

79%

79%

0

89%

84%

84%

84%

BV11a: % of top five percent of earners that are women

15.38%

16%

0.6%

-

20%

20%

20%

BV11b: % of top five percent of earners from black and minority ethnic communities

0%

0%

0%

-

5%

5%

5%

BV11c: % of top five percent of earners with a disability

N/A

5%

0%

-

5%

5%

5%

BV16a: % of employees declaring that they meet the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 compared with the % of economically active disabled people in the authority area

N/A

0.3%

0%

-

0.3

0.3

0.3

BV16b: % of economically active population in the local authority area who have a disability

N/A

5.2%

N/A

-

-

-

-

BV17i: Ethcis groups as a % of uniformed staff

1.08%

1.25%

0.17%

2.5%

3.2%

5.1%

7%

BV17ii: Ethnic groups as a % of the working population within the fire and rescue service's area

5%

5%

0%

-

-

-

-

BV210: % of women firefighters

N/A

2.4%

0%

-

7.2%

11.1%

15%

Human Resources
BV12i: Proportion of shifts lost to sickness - wholetime staff

8.7

5.8

33.3%

6.3

5.9

5.6

5.2

BV12ii: Proportion of shifts lost to sickness - all staff

10.9

6.01

40.8%

7.2

5.8

5.5

5.1

BV15i: Ill-health retirements as a percentage of workforce - Firefighters' Pension Scheme

1.14%

1.14%

0%

2.5%

1.1

0.9

0.8

BV15ii: Ill-health retirements as a percentage of workforce - Local Government Pension Scheme

0

0.9%

0.9%

1.6%

0.5

0.3

0.1

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