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Best Value Audit - Our submission
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The Council's submissionAll the documents submitted by the Council to Audit Scotland can be downloaded here.
- Part 1 lists the Council's submission
- Part 2 lists examples of best practice to support the submission
If you would like to find out more about the audit in Renfrewshire, please email us at chiefexec@renfrewshire.gov.uk.
Part 1: The Council's Best Value Audit Submission Section 1: Context Section 2: Best Value Criteria
- Criterion 1: Commitment and Leadership
- Criterion 2: Responsiveness and Consultation
- Criterion 3: Sound Governance at a Strategic, Financial and Operational Level
- Criterion 4: Sound Management of Resources and Contractual Relationships
- Criterion 5: Use of Review and Option Appraisal
- Criterion 6: Competitiveness, Trading and Discharge of Authority Functions
- Criterion 7: A Contribution to Sustainable Development
- Criterion 8: Equal Opportunities Arrangements
- Criterion 9: Joint Working
- Criterion 10: Accountability
- Chief Executive's
- Corporate Services
- Education and Leisure
- Environmental Services
- Finance and IT
- Housing and Property
- Planning and Transport
- Social Work
Part 2 : Examples of Best Practice
The Council also sent reports to Audit Scotland with their Audit submission as examples of best practice in service delivery. These reports are split down by Council department:
- Chief Executive's Department
- Corporate Services
- Education and Leisure Services
- Environmental Services
- Finance and IT Services
- Housing and Property Services
- Planning and Transport Services
- Social Work
Chief Executive's Department
- Public Performance Reporting (CE BP01)
- Covalent (CE BP02)
- Consultation database and strategy (CE BP03)
- Charter Mark (CE BP04)
- Portal (CE BP05)
- Equalities Audit (CE BP06)
- Employee Survey (CE BP07)
- Plain English (CE BP08)
- Corporate Statement Video (CE BP09)
Corporate Services
- Establishment of customer contact centre (CS BP01)
- Good practice within the customer contact centre (CS BP02)
- Managing attendance and health promotion (CS BP03)
- Raising voter awareness (CS BP04)
- Control of smoking at work (CS BP05)
- Customers Matter Training Strategy (CS BP06)
- District Court (CS BP07)
- Civil Marriages (CS BP08)
- Registration Service (CS BP09)
- Senior citizens scheme (CS BP10)
- Property enquiry service (CS BP11)
- Minicom service (CS BP12)
- Disability liaison group (CS BP13)
- Rentext (CS BP14)
- Involvement and elected members (CS BP15)
- Scrutiny Board (CS BP15)
Education and Leisure Services
- Vocational Education (ELS BP01)
- Recognising Achievement (ELS BP02)
- Arts for Pupils (ELS BP03)
- Pre-school education (ELS BP04)
- Community arts (ELS BP05)
- Links between school and home (ELS BP06)
- Learning Neighbourhoods (ELS BP07)
- Local heritage (ELS BP08)
- Partnership working (ELS BP09)
- Healthy Lifestyles (ELS BP10)
- Developing Sports Activity (ELS BP11)
- Community Learning and Development (ELS BP12)
- Libraries and their communities (ELS BP13)
- Young People (ELS BP14)
- Sports Facilities (ELS BP15)
- Support in schools Time for Teaching (ELS BP16)
- Staff development (ELS BP17)
- Ecoschools (ELS BP18)
- School estate (ELS BP19)
- Customer focus (ELS BP20)
- School rationalisation (ELS BP21)
- PPP Project (ELS BP22)
- Firewatch (ELS BP23)
Environmental Services
- Strategic Waste Fund (ES BP01)
- Health Eating (ES BP02)
- Climate Change (ES BP03)
- Amenity Services Charter Mark (ES BP04)
- BSI Gold Award (ES BP05)
- Ecoschools (ES BP06)
- COSLA (ES BP07)
- Don't Rubbish Renfrewshire (ES BP08)
- CPD (ES BP09)
- Anti-counterfeiting (ES BP10)
- Training requests (ES BP11)
- Conference presentations (ES BP12)
- Publications (ES BP13)
- Carbon Management Programme (ES BP14)
Finance and IT Services
- Benefits Services Charter Mark (FIT BP01)
- Internal Audit (FIT BP02)
- IT Services (FIT BP03)
- Procurement (FIT BP04)
- Business change (FIT BP05)
Housing and Property Services
- Regeneration Strategy (HPS BP01)
- Renfrewshire Local Housing Strategy (HPS BP02)
- ASIST (HPS BP03)
- Neighbourhood Warden Service (HPS BP04)
- Tenant Participation Framework (HPS BP05)
- Young Persons Housing Forum (HPS BP06)
- Charter Mark areas of best practice (HPS BP07)
- Planning for change (HPS BP08)
- Housing repairs (HPS BP09)
- Meeting the Scottish Quality Housing Standard (HPS BP10)
Planning and Transport Services
- Renfrew Riverside (PT BP01)
- Anchor Mills (PT BP02)
- Rolls Royce (PT BP03)
- Innovative Transport Fund (PT BP04)
- Full Employment Area Foxbar (PT BP05)
- Surface Water Management (PT BP06)
- Planning hearings (PT BP07)
- Draining Assessment Guide (PT BP08)
- Glasgow Airport Zone (PT BP09)
- External Funding (PT BP10)
- Aulds and Inchinnan (PT BP11)
Social Work
- Residential Care Homes for Older People (SW BP01)
- Respite Unit for Adults with a learning disability (SW BP02)
- Joint Future (SW BP03)
- Delayed Discharge (SW BP04)
- Quality Assurance Framework (SW BP05)
- Inter-agency child protection (SW BP06)
- Renfrew joint development (SW BP07)
- RAMPS (SW BP08)
- Development of Practice in Relation to Sex Offenders (SW BP09)
- Diploma in Social Work (SW BP10)
- SVQ Level 4 in Social Care (SW BP11)
- Modernising Home Care (SW BP12)
- SWIFT (SW BP13)
- Women and Children 1st (SW BP14)
If you would like to find out more about the audit in Renfrewshire, please email us at chiefexec@renfrewshire.gov.uk.
