Stats+
Public sector industry data and insights to support informed, evidence-driven decision-making
What is Stats+?
Unbeaten, evidence-based technology
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+
Compare Performance
Nearest neighbour model
Compare your data with other local authorities and services to help identify improvements and consider collaboration.
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Use machine learning technology to understand and analyse historical data to identify trends and forecast future performance for proactive budget management.
Saving Money
Value for Money Toolkit
Understand and benchmark your investment in your services to identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost-saving, and organisations who may be able to provide clear advice.
Benefits of a Stats+ subscription
Better decision-making
Using machine learning technology, having a clear understand of your data and trends, helps you identify where there are opportunities to streamlining your spending, to make quick, impactful decisions.
Enhanced financial reporting
The technology behind Stats+ uses machine learning and predictive analytics to enhance your reporting, better manage your expenditure tracking and plan and forecast effectively. It helps you identify historical patterns and future trends, to effectively manage your budgets and investment.
Broad sector support
Stats+ offers a variety of datasets and expertise that covers a range of industries. Including Local authorities, social care, police and fire and rescue services, highways and transport, demographics and economy, culture and leisure, and public health.
Benchmark best practice
The nearest neighbour part of Stats+ is popular for a reason; compare your services against other bodies, either geographically or statistically, to identify examples of best practice to implement and save money and resources.
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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.
Success stories
TestimonialBrighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) had a clear vision: to successfully overcome a siloed approach to departments and dataInfoshare+
Brighton & Hove City Council
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Find out how Stats+ can help you
- Nearest neighbour model
- Predictive analytics
- Value for Money Toolkit