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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-order-2001/schedule-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/724",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Best Value) Performance Indicators and Performance Standards Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-best-value-performance-indicators-and-performance-standards-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/6",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "SOCIAL SERVICES PERFORMANCE INDICATORS",
  "text": "Indicator Number\nDescription of indicator\n1\nThe stability of placements of children looked after by the authority by reference to the percentage of children looked after on 31st March in any year with three or more placements during the year.\n2\nEducational qualifications of children looked after by reference to the percentage of young people leaving care aged sixteen or over with at least 1 GCSE at grades A*–G, or General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ).\n3\nThe percentage of those young people who were looked after on 1st April in their seventeenth year (aged sixteen), who were engaged in education, training or employment at the age of nineteen.\n4\nCost of services for children looked after by the authority by reference to the gross weekly expenditure per looked after child in foster care or in a children’s home.\n5\nCost of intensive social care for adults and older people by reference to the average gross weekly cost of providing care for adults and elderly people.\n6\nIntensive home care per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.\n7\nOlder people (aged sixty five or over) helped to live at home per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.\n8\nThe percentage of child protection cases which should have been reviewed during the year that actually were reviewed.\n9\nThe number of looked after children adopted during the year as a percentage of the number of children looked after at 31st March who had been looked after for 6 months or more at that date.\n10\nClients receiving a scheduled review as a percentage of adult clients receiving a service.\n11\nThe percentage of items of equipment costing less than £1,000 delivered within three weeks.\n12\nUsers/carers who said they got help quickly.\n13\nThe percentage of people receiving a statement of their needs and how they will be met.\n14\nAssessments per 1,000 population aged sixty five or over.\n15\nUsers/carers who said that matters relating to race, culture or religion were noted.\n16\nThe relative spend on family support by reference to the gross expenditure on children in need but not looked after by the authority, as a percentage of gross expenditure on all children’s services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/724/schedule/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:59:35.397991+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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