Benchmarking for SP Services

SP-Bench gives you the tools to compare the cost, quality and performance of SP services in the UK – empowering your SP team to improve value for money.

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SP-Bench currently has 9601 services from 51 Local Authorities for you to benchmark against. How many are there in my region?

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Benchmark

SP-Bench has been created to allow you to compare the cost, quality and performance of services with other SP teams from across the UK.

Using SP-Bench, you will have the power to:

  • Quickly and easily access useful information on the “value for money” you are getting from your services.
  • Make intelligent and insightful comparisons of the performance of your services against similar services from other Authorities.
  • Access and manipulate your SP data in new and intuitive ways leading to finer control over the quality of your services.
  • Make the most of the weath of SP knowledge and experience available by putting you in touch with SP team members from authorities like yours.
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Reports

SP-Bench has a set of standard, pre-built reports which allow you to quickly analyse key service benchmarks. The tool allows you to configure and save your own custom reports and to view a dashboard of key management information for your LA.

All the reports are based on pivot tables and can be modified or “drilled-down” by the user to view more specific data.

Quick-filters allow you to easily filter the data by:

  • Service Type
  • Accommodation Type
  • Primary Client Group
  • Support Duration
  • Support Provision
  • Household Units Available
  • Number of Staff
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Dashboard

SP-Bench implements advanced comparison techniques to allow you to compare your services to similar ones from Authorities similar to your own.

These techniques include comparison groupings available for LAs:

  • Nearest Neighbours from CIPFA - uses key demographic indicators to measure the similarity of one authority to another and selects the nearest neighbours for comparison.
  • Area classification from National Statistics – groups authorities with similar demographic features such as household composition, socioeconomic character and industry.
  • Authority type – groups into types such as: London Boroughs, Metropolitan Districts, County Councils, Unitary Authorities, Non-Metropolitan Districts.