How does Bristol compare?

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Neighbourhoods and City Development services compared
Health and Social Services compared
Children and Young People's Services - compared
Corporate Services

We’ve picked some key services to show how Bristol compares with England’s largest cities outside London (the core cities). Some of the figures compare us with our nearest neighbours.

However, it can be difficult to compare the cost of support services, since similar services are often given different names, or provided in different ways, by different local authorities. When we benchmark the cost of front-line services with core cities, we include the costs of support services within the cost of the front-line services, so that we can compare the full costs of the services we provide to residents

Neighbourhoods and City Development services compared

CD comparison

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Indicator and brief description	Bristol CC Spend	Core city average spend
Cost of Housing Welfare-Supporting people/ head of population	£50.04	£38.90
Cost of Recycling/ head of population	£26.36	£10.08
Cost of Open Spaces/ head of population	£21.04	£17.67
Cost of Recreation and Sport/ head of population	£18.47	£22.61
Cost of Public Transport statutory concessionary fares/ head of population	£17.12	£7.25

Health and Social Services compared

HSC comparative costs

Indicator and brief description	Bristol CC Spend	Core city average spend
Residential Care for Older People provided by the independent sector – 2011/12 draft unit cost per week (includes Older People with Learning Difficulties)	541	460
Residential Care for People with Learning Difficulties provided by the independent sector – 2011/12 draft unit cost per week	1308	1220
Residential Care for Disabled People provided by the independent sector – 2011/12 draft unit cost per week	1163	787
Homecare – provided by the independent sector – 2011/12 draft unit cost per hour	17	14
% spend on residential/nursing care of total adult purchasing budgets as at September 2012	59%	Target <40%

Children and Young People's Services - compared

CYPS - comparative costs

Indicator and brief description	Bristol CC Spend	Core city average spend
DfE Section 251 Budget Statement Statutory Benchmarking 2011/12 based on Population 0-17
- Children Looked after	291	346
- Children’s Social Care	177	205
- Youth Services	87	63
- Home to School Travel	133	84
- Child Care & Children Centres	139	95

Corporate Services

Reliable comparative information is not available or incomplete for many services provided by Corporate Services, so the following shows how this department is performing against key indicators from 2011 to 2012.

CS comparative costs

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Indicator and brief description	2011	2012
Cost of Finance per £’000 gross revenue turnover	£4.46	£4.33
Cost of core (non schools) HR staff per employee	£304	£272
Cost of Legal service per 1,000 population	£10.84	£10.19
ICT spend per head of population	£41	£39.66
Amount of total Council revenue budget spent on ICT	1.86%	1.75%
Council Tax in-year collection rate	96.5%	96.3% 95.3% (against Core Cities)
Business Rates in-year collection rate	97.6%	97.3% (against Core Cities)
Average cost per invoice raised	£6.18	£6.00
Average cost per invoice paid	£1.11	£2.50

How does Bristol compare?

Neighbourhoods and City Development services compared

Health and Social Services compared

Children and Young People's Services - compared

Corporate Services

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