The Adults with Learning Disabilities club continues the approach successfully used in recent years. While naturally many of the questions will be the repeated between the client groups our aim this year is to focus further on the specific needs of the learning disability client group.

The questionnaires and reports cover:

• Costs comparisons: unit costs, profiles, comparison to population
• Client analysis: by age, type of care, and recent trends
• A wide range of other process and quality comparisons: e.g. national indicators, transition from children's services, analysis of overheads, services for carers etc.

Members also receive additional detailed reports analysing the PSS Ex1 dataset providing a wealth of cost comparisons for no additional workload to members.

Members can then send up to two delegates per club to our review meetings to get behind the figures, discuss current issues with their peers and identify changes that will help service delivery in their own authority.

For further information, please contact Aidan Rawlinson, Benchmarking Developer on 0208 667 8569 or aidan.rawlinson@cipfa.org.uk.