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The 8th Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference

22 February 2012

Open Letter from Nick Sloan, Director, Performance Measurement, NAO

Never has performance measurement been more relevant and more critical. The 2012 NAO Performance Measurement Conference will be held at a time when the full impact of the first round of spending cuts will have been felt. Now all departments, agencies, NDPBs and local authorities will be working hard to deliver the Government’s aim of deficit reduction, while maintaining service quality.

As they do so, they are also tasked with implementing greater commitments to data transparency and to localism, to support accountability. All of this comes, of course, at a time when many central government targets have been removed, which itself throws up new challenges and opportunities.

The conference programme will draw together experts from the National Audit Office, central and local government, academia and industry to consider these issues:

  • What the Open Public Service reforms will mean for performance measurement
  • The use and misuse of analysis in government
  • How transparency and open data supports service improvement
  • Information for management accountability
  • Accountability through localism
  • What opportunities and challenges have emerged from the absence of central targets
  • Information supporting structured cost reduction in central government
  • Lessons from sector-led performance measurement in local government

I very much hope that you will be able to join us for this conference, and that you will circulate this invitation to relevant colleagues in your organisation who may wish to attend. The conference will provide a unique opportunity to hear from leading authorities on the subject and to network with your peer groups in central and local government.

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Previous events

The 7th Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference

Delivering structured and sustainable cost reduction while maintaining value

Thursday 10 March 2011 • Park Plaza Victoria London 

The 2011 NAO Performance Measurement Conference was held at a time of unprecedented change for both central and local government. The 2010 Spending Review announced cuts of £81 billion across government in the next four years, with average cuts of 19% for departmental budgets other than health and overseas aid.

The budget cuts announced in the Spending Review will require departments, agencies, NDPBs and local authorities (a) to understand the relationship between their costs and the outputs and outcomes generated by those resources in order to decide which costs to cut, and (b) to monitor the effectiveness of their cost reduction strategies, particularly in relation to the impact on their delivery of departmental objectives.

Furthermore, public bodies must meet this challenge at a time of greater general uncertainty for them. The replacement of the old PSA/DSO performance measurement framework with new arrangements will have significant implications for how departmental performance is assessed. In addition, the impact of the government’s ‘Big Society’ concept and localism agenda on service delivery is not yet clear.

 

The 6th Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference

Lessons learned - looking at the past, present and future of performance measurement - 2010

Thursday 28 January 2010 • Park Plaza Victoria London

The National Audit Office held this conference to look at the effectiveness of performance measurement in achieving value for money. The conference explored lessons for the future at a time when budgets and performance frameworks are hot topics. The full impacts of the economic recession are still to be felt in the public sector and this conference took the opportunity to set out the future of performance measurement in that context.

The conference provided a unique opportunity to hear from leading authorities on the subject. Speakers came from a broad range of backgrounds including central government, local government, overseas government, the private sector, regulators, agencies and think tanks. The audience was equally diverse and the conference created a lively debate. This showed that, following the five previous successful annual conferences, performance measurement is still a key issue in the public sector today.

 

Improving your Board's performance: an event for public sector Non-Executive Directors

Monday 28 September 2009 • Chartered Accountants' Hall London

Successful boards improve their organisation’s performance, but the range of objectives and stakeholders can mean achieving organisational improvement is more challenging in the public sector.

This one-day event was designed specifically for non-executive directors in the public sector and covered a variety of topics, all aimed at making boards more effective.

This event was hosted jointly by the National Audit Office, Mazars and the ICAEW's NED special interest group.

Speakers were:

 

The 5th Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference

Strengthening the use of performance frameworks in the public sector - 2009

Thursday 29 January 2009 • The Guoman Tower Hotel

This NAO Performance Measurement Conference, the fifth in this successful series, was held at a time of global economic downturn which will put further pressure on government budgets. At the same time, the UK Government is pressing ahead with a drive for efficiency savings. Taken together, these two factors are likely to push effective performance measurement and management even higher up the UK Government's policy agenda.

The NAO, as part of its commitment to work with departments to help them bring about beneficial change in the delivery of public services, has been closely involved in the performance measurement debate. This is why we have developed the Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference and continue to deliver reports and guidance on this subject.

Following the success of the four previous NAO Performance Measurement Conferences, this year's event focused on strengthening the use of performance frameworks in the public sector.

Further details: 5th Performance Measurement Conference brochure [PDF, 382 KB]

 

The 4th Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference - 2007

The Government's recent Comprehensive Spending Review made radical changes to improve the framework for Public Service Agreements (PSAs). These changes represent the biggest reform of the public sector performance measurement and management regime in a decade. The National Audit Office (NAO), as part of its commitment to promote beneficial change in the delivery of public services, has been closely involved in the performance measurement debate. It has developed the annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference to give major developments in performance measurement a wider audience, and to bring together public servants from a variety of backgrounds to debate the significance of those developments.

Following the success of the three previous NAO Performance Measurement Conferences, this year's event focused on the practical implications of the reform proposals set out in CSR07 and the specific challenges that they present to those charged with implementing them.

 

The 3rd Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference - 2006

6 December

A one day Conference at the Royal Garden Hotel, London

 

The 2nd Annual NAO Performance Measurement Conference

Developing a performance culture - 2005

22 November

A one-day conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre

 

NAO Annual Performance Measurement Conference

Improving service delivery through effective performance management - 2004

9 November