performance
Performance reports
We collect information on the council's performance for two reasons:
- So we know how we are doing and can make improvements
- To keep ourselves accountable to the people of Aberdeenshire and others with an interest in the council
We want to ensure our residents, service users and partners can access information that is relevant to them quickly and easily. We publish a range of performance data during each year. Comprehensive details of our regular publications can be found in our performance reports calendar.
Annual report
Our council plan sets out core priorities and outcomes for the council, setting the strategic direction to be delivered during the life of the plan. Each year we will publish an annual report providing a review of progress delivering the priority outcomes and overall performance improvement including performance based on statutory indicators. The review of progress also reflects the outcomes of external scrutiny, self-evaluation and customer feedback.
View our annual performance reports.
Delivering on our priorities
To see how we are delivering on our priorities overall, please review our council plan scorecards.
Cross-service performance
Our directorates regularly monitor their performance against a set of key outcome and service indicators. They report overall performance to policy and area committees by way of outcome and service indicators. To ensure full scrutiny, twice a year we publish an overview report and comprehensive reports for all indicators. You can find these updates on the relevant committee pages.
Corporate Improvement Plan
Our Corporate Improvement Plan incorporates the council's high level improvement action plans which relate to Best Value, Self-Evaluation and our Annual Governance Statement. The progress of the plan is reported to the Audit Committee on a three monthly basis.
You can find these updates on the Audit Committee page.
Self-assessment and evaluation
As a council, we must recognise both our strengths and any areas for improvement. Through self-assessment, we aim to demonstrate our performance to comply with the Accounts Commission Statutory Performance Information (SPI) Direction 2024. This helps to us enhance services, make informed decisions, and ensure we deliver the best value.
We use the Public Service Improvement Framework for self-assessment and evaluation, applying it across services and conducting annual council-wide assessments.
View our annual self-assessment action plans, which are also published through our Corporate Improvement Plan.
Statement of compliance
The Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 includes provisions on promoting regulatory consistency, improving environmental regulation and a duty on regulators to contribute to achieving sustainable economic growth, and gives Scottish Ministers the power to issue a Code of Practice in support of the duty on regulators to contribute to sustainable economic growth. To this end the Scottish Regulators’ Strategic Code of Practice has been developed, and each Council is required to produce an annual statement of compliance with the Code. View the Aberdeenshire Council statement of compliance for 2019 (PDF 422KB).