This compendium summarises previous value-for-money (VFM) reports, management handbooks and relevant management papers published by the Audit Commission on local government topics. It could be useful to members and officers carrying out best value reviews on these topics. Copies of the publications are still available. If you wish to order further copies of any of these, they are available from the Commission's publications agents (see order form at the back of the compendium).
This publication updates the Audit Commission's 1995 compendium. The new compendium contains references to new reports, management papers and management handbooks, as well as some publications from the old compendium, where they are still considered sufficiently relevant in the light of legislative and other contextual changes. Where there have been significant changes since the publication of reports - for example, the abolition of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) - entries in the compendium highlight how these affect their ongoing relevance, both in terms of their data and their messages.
A companion compendium of good practice from Audit Commission reports on the health service was published in 1999. This is of relevance to some local authority social services functions (although the most relevant reports are also covered in this local government volume).