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Now permanently in focus after the Gershon report: improving Value for Money and within that your efficiency is made easier with hf:expert’s focused library of resources.

Efficiency
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2004 Spending Review: efficiency progress to December 2007
Annual Efficiency Statements - 2007-08 mid-year update
Annual Efficiency Statements - 2006-07 Backward Look
Audit Commission - Seeing the light
  CLG - Measuring and Reporting Efficiency Gains: Supplementary information for completing the 2007-08 backward look efficiency statements
CLG - Prospectus 2008: the guide to improvement and efficiency support
  CLG - Social Housing Efficiency Inflation Indices - May 2008
CLG - The National Procurement Strategy for Local Government - final report
CLG - Value for money measurement post CSR 2007
CLG, Annual Efficiency Statements - 2007-08 Forward Look
Communities and Local Government, annual efficiency statements backward look 2006/07
Communities and Local Government, Annual Efficiency Statements forward look 2007/08
Department of Trade and Industry - £12m for home generators
HM Treasury - Managing performance
HM Treasury - Operational Efficiency Programme
  Housemark - HAs and IT: operating costs, usage and suppliers report
Improvement and Development Agency - knowledge management library: tools, techniques and case studies
Improvement and Development Agency - Performance management
0044 - Improving rent collection - Liam Dawson
Institute of operational management - lean accounting
National Audit Office - improving corporate functions using shared services
  Shared services in the Department for Transport and its agencies - National Audit Office
  Strategic performance management in government and public sector organisations - Advanced Performance Institute
Tenant Services Authority – Letter to housing associations and local authorities
The Audit Commission – Use of resources guidance
The Housing Corporation - Efficiency is key to riding out credit crunch
The Housing Corporation - Operating Cost Index 2007
The Housing Corporation - streamlined annual efficiency statements take burden off housing associations
The Housing Corporation – Latest key housing association performance indicators
The Office for Disability Issues - 'Better outcomes, lower costs'
  The service transaction cost model, regional centres of excellence
The service transaction cost model, regional centres of excellence
Thematic Review - efficiency
Wales Audit Office - Fleet Management
Welsh Audit office - managing sickness absence

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CSR review
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Three star housing organisations providing landlord services

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Benchmarking

KPI analysis
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Neighbourhood Capital, an independent review of the London's G15's core housing management and maintenance activities
Supported benchmarking project: a review of year two, National Housing Federation

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Annual Efficiency Statement - The Housing Corporation, Thematic review; Efficiency
Audit Commission - use of resources consultation for 2008 assessments
Audit Commission and IDEA - Innovation in public services
CLG - National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy
CLG - Value for Money Delivery Agreement
Collaborative Working and Shared Services (value for money) in Derbyshire, East Midlands Centre of Excellence
Development - National Audit Office, Homebuilding: Measuring Construction Performance
Effective measurement of customers satisfaction using GovMetric, East Midlands centre of excellence
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to translation services
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to postal services
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to energy procurement
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to fleet procurement
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to fuel procurement
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to ICT hardware procurement
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to print services
Regional Centres of Excellence, guides to cutting costs
      On the money guide to Telecoms procurement
Regulation and inspection - The Housing Corporation, presentation by Deputy Chief Executive
The Housing Corporation - Independence and efficiency: mergers, groups and alliances
Thematic Review - efficiency


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