Juliet Whitworth Il y a 12 années Thanks for drawing attention to this report, Neil. I actually agree with you, that transparency does not necessarily require comparability. However, as a member of the public as well as a local government officer, I can see that having some context to any data (like a comparison with other authorities a bit like mine) means the data my council shares with me is more meaningful. I think, therefore, there is room for comparability to be a feature as well. LG Inform has been developed first and foremost as a benchmarking tool, to offer comparability. The possibility of it being able to help councils be more transparent was also intended, but now we are able to do this in ways that weren’t thought possible 12-18 months ago. The next version of LG Inform, which is currently in development for launch in the autumn, will allow councils to embed into their own website (where their website has that functionality) any charts and reports they create, or simply direct their residents and businesses to a ‘public’ area of LG Inform that shows their authority’s data. LG Inform will then keep that data up-to-date for councils. As you say, authorities have different priorities, and LG Inform allows you to build reports that show data related to those priorities for your area. Having said that, this doesn’t stop councils from publishing non-comparable information as well – this is particularly important for those more difficult to measure outcomes or achievements and, as you say, exploring issues in more depth and understanding where service improvements might be made. By the way, you can rest assured that LG Inform has never been intended as a ‘mandatory’ tool for benchmarking, and it is highly unlikely that the voluntary nature of it will be changed! There’s an LG Inform group on the Knowledge Hub, for anyone interested in keeping up to date with LG Inform progress and, more importantly, discussing and influencing how it develops. Go here: LG Inform Knowledge Hub group . 1 Répondre en tant que ... Annuler