Corporate Strategy

National Indicator Set (NIS)

In October 2006, the Local Government White Paper on Strong and Prosperous Communities was published, committing to introducing a set of streamlined indicators that would reflect national priority outcomes for local authorities working alone or in partnership.

A single set of 188 national indicators was introduced from April 2008 with the purpose of:

  • Being the only measures on which central Government will performance monitor outcomes delivered by local government working alone or in partnership.
  • Replacing all other existing sets of indicators including Best Value Performance Indicators and Performance Assessment Framework indicators.
  • Forming a set of measures from which partnerships could select 'designated' indicators for Local Area Agreements.

However, with the election of the new coalition government and with effect from October 2010, following the announcement on the ending of Local Area Agreements and the National Indicator Set, both the Hub and the Places Analysis Tool (PAT) will be closed within the next few months. Data on these central government webpages is no longer being updated or maintained whilst further decisions are considered about the future performance reporting requirements of local government.

Data returns to individual government departments that make up the NIs will continue unless you are informed otherwise. Each government department responsible for NIs will continue to publish data taken from these data returns in the same way they always have done. You will therefore still be able to access the data directly from them.