I'm sure you will all be delighted to read the following sentence from a letter sent to Chief Executives by the Department for Communities and Local Government in May entitled DELETING NINE BEST VALUE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR 2007 - 08. (Thanks to Tony Sharp for passing it on) "The power to set BVPIs will be abolished by a clause in the Local Government & Public Involvement in Health Bill which is currently going through Parliament. Therefore, 2007 - 08 will be the last year of BVPIs." This will be an especial pleasure for those of you who have done a lot of work to address the indicator and set up processes to measure it into the future. Now is the time to start lobbying to make sure that if anything similar survives the abolition of the current set of up to 1200 indicators and their replacement by a new "single set of around 200 against which all areas will report and which will be designed to measure progress against national priority outcomes" then it is a bit more sensible than BV165 (RIP). We will talk about this at the TSG committee meeting next week. Peter -- Peter Bull Traffic Information & Control Manager Sheffield City Council, 2-10 Carbrook Hall Road, Sheffield S9 2DB Tel: (0114) 273 6174 Fax: (0114) 273 6182 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The information in this email is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee, please tell us by using the reply facility in your email software as soon as possible. Sheffield City Council cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended please tell us as soon as possible. Sheffield City Council may monitor all email passing through its networks. ----------------------------------------------------------- A message from the TCUG mailing list. For information about the list visit //www.freelists.org/webpage/tcug