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SP-Bench – Improving Value for Money in SP by Benchmarking

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SP-Bench allows you to compare the cost, quality and performance of SP services in the UK – empowering your SP team to improve value for money by contrasting your services with similar services from other LAs, grouping by service type, region, Local Authority type and other relevant drivers. Lead Officers will be able to address the Audit Commission’s conclusion that Authorities should improve their benchmarking of services at regional levels.

SP-Bench is ideal for commissioners and providers who need to evaluate existing services and tender for new ones. Data can be viewed in both graphical and tabular forms, which can be easily inserted into your strategy reports. The goal of the tool is to allow Local Authorities to develop a greater understanding of the relationship between costs and quality, and to provide Lead Officers with the information they need to negotiate funding levels with more confidence.

Why choose SP-Bench?

The key features of SP-Bench:

  • Compare services by cost, quality (QAF), performance (PI) and outcome (CHR Outcomes framework)
  • Choose services to compare based upon service type, client group, support duration, and more
  • Group services by their geographical region and LA to view regional or authority averages
  • Compare services from LAs with similar population demographics, or with matching authority types (e.g. Metropolitan district)
  • Powerful set of built-in reports, plus the ability to define your own
  • Easily switch between graphical and tabular views of the data
  • Dashboard to view key management reports
  • Drill down through data graphically to find the information you need
  • Save and export graphs and data
  • Uses the leading commercial graphing library
  • Linked to LA’s Supporting People system
  • Data security and anonymisation to ensure sensitive information cannot be viewed.

Oxford Computer Consultants – Original, robust and flexible IT solutions

We are an IT consultancy and software development business providing independent services since 1989. The business is divided into:

  • IT consultancy group offering consultancy and software services to public and private sector organisations, specialising in consultancy services to LA Social Services and Housing Departments. Over 25% of English LAs with Social Services responsibilities have used OCC’s consultancy services in the past 3 years.
  • eBusiness group focusing on web services technology and open standards for the public sector; software implementation and products group.

For further information about our consultancy services see www.oxfordcc.co.uk. Details of our innovative Local Government Contract Management and Finance Systems for Local Authorities and Services Providers is available at www.oxfordcclg.co.uk.

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