Nearest Neighbour Model
Compare your performance with similar organisations to identify opportunities for improvement
Stats+
Helping the public sector ensure financial resilience and deliver sustainable and effective frontline services.
Access a wealth of public sector industry data and insights to support informed, evidence-driven decision-making and more proactive, efficient planning to deliver better citizen outcomes.
What is Stats+?
Previously known as CIPFAStats+, Stats+ is a subscription-based online toolkit that provides powerful insights into your organisation’s services, funding, capacity, resources, and future trends. Using interactive dashboards, you can analyse past performance, plan for future demand, and compare with similar organisations to identify opportunities for improvement.
Our expert analysts compile comprehensive datasets covering areas such as finance, police, culture, leisure, and more. You’ll gain access to detailed comparative data on expenditure, assets, grants, council tax, reserves, and other non-financial information.
Key Features of Stats+
Predictive Analytics
Using machine learning technology, analyse historical data and predict future spending, enabling proactive budget management.
Value for Money Toolkit
Evaluate your expenditures for efficiency and cost-effectiveness and identify high-performing organisations who can provide actionable advice
Benefits of a Stats+ subscription
Stats+ helps your organisation:
Make informed management decisions
Plan and forecast effectively
Enhance financial reporting and expenditure tracking
Gain insights into past, current, and future trends
Leverage predictive analytics for better outcomes
Benchmark against other organisations to identify strengths and areas for improvement
How to use Stats+
Stats+ empowers you to:
- Understand costs, demands, and performance.
- Analyse trends to improve services.
- Exchange insights and best practices with peers.
- Support discussions with integrated care systems.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Compare performance with regional authorities or statistical neighbours.
- Navigate and visualise data more clearly.
- Focus on key metrics, such as social care unit costs.
- Produce insight reports on high and low-performing services.
The Stats+ Datasets
Stats+ offers a wide range of datasets tailored to various sectors:
- General Finance: Detailed local authority expenditure data, including a complete breakdown of the RA and RO datasets.
- Police: Financial and management data for better decision-making.
- Culture, Leisure, and Recreation: Data on libraries, leisure facilities, and more.
- Environmental and Regulatory: Performance data on waste services, environmental health, and trading standards.
- Fire and Rescue Service: Staffing, budgets, and service resources.
- Social Care: Efficiency insights and future service planning.
- Highways and Transport: Management data on local highways and transport.
- Demographics and Economy: Local authority demographic and economic data.
- Children’s Social Care: Key statistics on children’s needs and outcomes.
- Sustainability: Performance in areas like waste, pollution, and biodiversity.
- Public Health: Data on issues like obesity, dementia, and life expectancy.