NHT CQC Report Descriptions

Explore detailed CQC report summaries that highlight performance, compliance, and quality standards. NHT provides clear, accessible insights to help members stay informed and aligned with best practices.

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NHT CQC Benchmarking Reports and Report Descriptions

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Executive Summary

Provides a high level overview of your CQC results quantifying your improvement and how much you have saved since 2013/14. This report might be used by The Director, Assistant Directors and Heads of Service with responsibility for carriageway maintenance to highlight the level of efficiency/overall value for money of the Council’s Highway maintenance. This overview should assist when discussing the VFM of the Highway Service with the S151 Officer and Auditors, or as part of a Best Value Review.

Authority Report

Expands on the Executive Summary and describes the methods and data used in the CQC analysis on a step by step basis. This report might be needed to satisfy the S151 Officer and financial colleagues of the legitimacy of the results that you have achieved and the applicability of this approach to the quantification of efficiency gains and the real improvements that have been made in carriageway maintenance.

Savings Statement

Provides an extract of the Executive Summary to show your authority’s savings since 2013/14. This report might be used as a record of the efficiency savings that have been achieved.

Benchmarking Reports

These reports compare your results to a selection of other authorities, including the attributes of those authorities.

    • Regional – this will run for your own Region.
    • Alliance – you can run this for any Alliance you are part of.
    • Self Selection – pick your own group of authorities.
    • CQC Comparison Group – this is the 10 authorities that are most like you.
Group Annual Report

This report compares the performance of a Group of Authorities with other equivalent Groups and with its own year on year performance. It also identifies the best performers and biggest improvers within the Group. These reports should be provided to your representatives at regional alliances, benchmarking / improvement groups, particularly if they chair that group or have a role in its governance. Those reports might be used by those representatives to inform how the group might seek to contribute to the Highway and Transportation Sector as a purveyor of Best Practice in the eyes of the public.

These reports should be provided to your representatives who are considering the VFM of highway maintenance and asset management (carriageways in particular) at regional alliances, benchmarking / improvement groups. These reports might be used by those representatives to identify the exemplar authorities that you might speak with to identify how you can improve.
The VFM comparisons made with other authorities sought as part of any audit are often made with a cohort of authorities established on the basis of attributes such as population and/or how the authority is constituted. These comparisons can be made in respect to the VFM being achieved in carriageway maintenance across any such cohort using the self-selection report.
However, comparisons made on conventional basis may not be like for like given your Highway attributes. Consequently, the CQC Comparison Group might be used by the Director, Assistant Directors and Heads of Service with responsibility for highway maintenance as part of their response to an audit of the VFM being achieved in respect to carriageway maintenance, as the comparisons here are made between you and a cohort of authorities that have been identified on the basis of attributes that are related to the delivery of highways services.

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Public Satisfaction Survey

The NHT Public Satisfaction Survey is the largest survey of its kind, and is recognised by the Department for Transport.

Performance Management Framework (PMF)

Compares service performance across asset types and management levels

CQC Efficiency Network

The CQC Efficiency Network compares Carriageway costs & carbon efficiencies across local authorities on a like-for-like basis

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