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This toolkit supports councils to make the best use of their resources and to promote personalisation in a difficult and challenging context.
The resources self-assessment toolkit aims to share ideas about how to get better value for people and taxpayers – pooling evidence about what works. It can be used flexibly. For example:
- some council officers might just use it for quick reference; for example, to check whether they are aware of recent sources of evidence and guidance
- some senior management teams might decide to use it as a guide for discussion and reflection (for example, at an away day)
- many will decide that some but not all elements are useful to them, and/or adapt it for their own purposes.
The toolkit consists of three documents:
This toolkit was created with partners in 2012. This updated version was published in 2014.