Comparing our performance to other councils helps us identify where we are doing well and where we can improve. We can learn about the way they are organised, their processes and policies and look at how we can implement changes to improve our performance. 

The Local Government Benchmarking Framework (LGBF) is collated by the Improvement Service. The data then provides a starting point designed to encourage councils to work together to explore variations in cost and performance to achieve improvement. 

You can explore the data on the LGBF Dashboard 

We actively participate in a number of benchmarking group including:

• The Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE)​
• Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development (SLEAD)​
• SCOTS (Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland)​
• SOCITIM (Society for IT practitioners in the public sector)