Policy paper

Local Outcomes Framework: Priority outcomes and metrics

Published 9 February 2026

This table contains the metrics captured in the Local Outcomes Framework and live links to the data.

Priority outcome	Ambition statement	Outcome metrics (data source)	Output metrics (data source)	F
Housing supply	Build the homes the country needs so that everyone has access to a home they can afford	Metrics to capture LA contribution to housing supply are being considered and will be confirmed publicly no later than the publication of the digital tool.	Metrics to capture LA contribution to housing supply are being considered and will be confirmed publicly no later than the publication of the digital tool.

Housing quality and safety

Everyone has access to a decent, safe, and secure home

- Percentage of rental housing in the local authority area deemed decent (MHCLG) -Percentage of homes rated energy performance certificate (EPC) C and above (ONS) - Percentage of completed remediation for unique buildings (MHCLG) -Percentage of local authority-owned social housing deemed decent (MHCLG)

Private Rented Sector enforcement [Placeholder]

Homelessness and rough sleeping

Prevent and reduce homelessness and rough sleeping

- Rate of households with children in temporary accommodation per 1,000 households (MHCLG) - Number of families in B&B over 6 weeks (MHCLG) - Percentage of duties owed where homelessness was prevented or relieved (MHCLG) – broken down by a cohort: households experiencing multiple disadvantage [Placeholder] (This metric is also reflected in the multiple disadvantage outcome) - Number of people sleeping rough on a single night  (MHCLG) - Number of people sleeping rough over the month who are long term (MHCLG)

No output metrics included.

Multiple disadvantage

Improve the lives of adults experiencing multiple disadvantage

- Percentage of people in substance use treatment flagged as experiencing multiple disadvantage, achieving significant progress in treatment [Placeholder] -Percentage of duties owed where homelessness was prevented or relieved for households experiencing multiple disadvantage [Placeholder] (a cohort of the homelessness and rough sleeping metric) - Number of people sleeping rough over the month who are long term (MHCLG) (also reflected in the homelessness and rough sleeping outcome) - Mental ill-health [Placeholder]

- Percentage of prison leavers with a substance misuse need engaged in treatment within three weeks of release (DHSC) - Number of households referred to domestic abuse safe accommodation services that could not be supported due to unmet needs (MHCLG) - Drugs and alcohol: Proportion of the opiate and/or crack prevalent population (15-64) and the proportion of alcohol-dependent population (18+) that are not in treatment (unmet need) (NDTMS)

Best start in life

Improve early child development and health through improved family support and high-quality early education to give children in every part of the country the best start in life

- Child development: Percentage of children with a good level of development at 5 years old (DfE) - Child development: Percentage point difference between the proportion of children eligible or not eligible for Free School Meals achieving a Good Level of Development (DfE) -Child health: percentage achieving good level of development at 2-2.5 year review (also reflected in the health and wellbeing outcome)

- Best Start Family Hubs [placeholder] - Take-up rate of 2-year-old disadvantage childcare offer (DfE) - Take-up rate of the 3–4-year-old 15 hours childcare offer (DfE)

Every child achieving and thriving	Support all children and young people to achieve and thrive in school, at home and in their communities	-School attainment: Percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2 for all state funded schools, local authority maintained schools and academies (DfE) -School attainment: Key Stage 2 attainment “disadvantage gap”, difference in attainment between students who are known to be disadvantaged / are not known to be disadvantaged (DfE) -School attainment: Key Stage 4 attainment 8 data for all state funded schools, local authority maintained schools and academies (DfE - in development) School attainment: Key Stage 4 attainment 8 “disadvantage gap”, difference in attainment between students who are known to be disadvantaged / are not known to be disadvantaged (DfE) -Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET): Percentage of young people (16 – 17) not in education, employment or training (DfE) -Special Educational Needs (SEN): Percentage of SEN pupils meeting expected standard in reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2 (all SEN provision, children and young people with an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) and SEN support without an EHCP) (DfE) -Special Educational Needs (SEN): KS4 attainment 8 data for SEN pupils (all SEN provision, children and young people with an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP) and SEN support without an EHCP) (DfE) -School leavers: Young people supported to move into education, employment or training – post-16 destinations including SEN breakdowns (DfE) -Absence: absence rate – persistent and severe absence (DfE) -Absence: Absence rate for SEN pupils (children and young people with an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP), and SEN support without an EHCP) (DfE) - Children not in school [Placeholder] - Youth offenders: first time entrants to youth justice system (MoJ) - Youth Offenders: percentage of youth offenders reoffending (MoJ) -Children and young people’s mental health / wellbeing [Placeholder]	- Special Educational Needs (SEN): percentage of SEN children supported in mainstream schools (DfE) -Physical inactivity: less active (less than 30 minutes per day) (Sport England - Table 3) - Participation in youth services in the last 12 months (including sports, music, art or youth clubs) (DCMS) [Placeholder]
Keeping children safe (children’s social care)	Keep children safe in secure and loving homes and help more families to thrive together	- Rate of children looked after per 10,000 children (DfE) - Persistent absence: percentage of persistent absentees among children using children’s social care (DfE) - Key stage 2 attainment: percentage achieving expected standard in Key stage 2 among children using children’s social care (DfE) - Key stage 4 attainment: average attainment at key stage 4 among children using children’s social care (DfE) - Family networks: percentage of children who cease being looked after due to special guardianship order, residence order or child arrangement order (DfE) - Repeat child protection plans: percentage of child protection plans which were a second or subsequent plan (DfE) - Long period on child protection plan: percentage of child protection plans longer than 2 years (DfE) - Placement stability: percentage of children looked after with 3 or more placements during the year (DfE) - Placement types: percentage of children looked after living in different placement types (DfE) - Percentage of care leavers in education, employment or training for 17-18 and 19-21 age groups (DfE) - Percentage of care leavers in suitable accommodation 17-18 and 19 – 21 age groups (DfE) - Family help [Placeholder] - Children looked after wellbeing: average strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) score for children looked after (DfE) - Distance of placements from home: percentage of looked after children placed more than 20 miles from home (DfE)	- Resource prioritisation between early and later intervention: share of children’s services spend not on children looked after (DfE dashboard, using MHCLG data) - Workforce vacancy rates (DfE)

Health and wellbeing

People live healthier lives for longer and health inequalities are reduced

-Health life expectancy at birth (split by male and female) (DHSC) -Slope index of inequality in life expectancy at birth (split by male and female) (DHSC) - Smoking: percentage of those setting a quit date who successfully quit smoking (DHSC) - Child health: percentage achieving good level of development at 2-2.5 year review (DHSC) (Metric repeated in the best start in life outcome) - Drugs and alcohol: rate of alcohol-specific mortality (directly standardised rate per 100,000) (DHSC) -Drugs and alcohol: proportion of people in substance use treatment flagged as experiencing multiple disadvantage, achieving significant progress in treatment [Placeholder] (Metric repeated in the multiple disadvantage outcome) - Obesity: year 6 obesity prevalence (DHSC) - Physical inactivity: percentage of adults who are physically inactive (DHSC) - Sexual health: under 18 conception rate (DHSC) - Oral health: percentage of 5-year-olds with experience of visually obvious dental decay (DHSC) - Mental Health: Suicide Rate (DHSC)

- Smoking: Percentage of local smoking population who set a quit date (DHSC) - Drugs and alcohol: Proportion of the opiate and/or crack prevalent population (15-64) and the proportion of alcohol-dependent population (18+) that are not in treatment (unmet need) (NDTMS) - Sexual health: Proportion of people with PrEP need initiated or continuing PrEP. (DHSC) - Sexual health: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing rate (exclude chlamydia aged 24 years and under) per 100,000. (DHSC) -Cardiovascular disease prevention: Proportion of NHS health checks completed across the eligible population (DHSC)

Adult social care – quality

People who draw on care and support, and their carers, experience high quality adult social care that is provided by a skilled workforce

- Care recipient quality of life (adjusted to account for local authority impact) (ASCOF) - Quality of life of carers  (ASCOF) - Overall satisfaction of carers with social services (for them and the person they care for)  (ASCOF) - Overall satisfaction of people who use services with their care and support (ASCOF) - Proportion of section 42 safeguarding enquiries where a risk was identified, and the reported outcome was that the risk was identified, and the reported outcome was that the risk was reduced or removed  (ASCOF)

-Workforce turnover: Proportion of staff in the formal care workforce leaving their role in the past 12 months (Skills for care)

Adult social care – independence, choice and control

People who draw on care and support are supported to promote their independence, where possible, and have choice and control over their support

- Proportion of people who received reablement during the year, who were previously not receiving services, where no further request was made for ongoing support (ASCOF) - Proportion of people who receive long-term support who live in their home or with family (ASCOF) - Proportion of people who use services who report having control over their daily life (ASCOF) - Proportion of care users and carers who have found it easy to find information about services and/or support (ASCOF) - Proportion of carers who report that they have been involved in discussions about the person they care for (ASCOF) - Proportion of people using social care who receive direct payments (ASCOF)

- Number of people receiving local authority-provided or organised long-term adult social care support (nursing, residential, and community) per 100,000 adults, split by age (18-64, 65+) (DHSC) -Number of people receiving adult social care assessments who’ve not received local authority long-term support in the previous 12 months per 100,000 population (DHSC)

Adult social care - neighbourhood health / integration

People who draw on care and support experience joined-up health and social care services at a neighbourhood level

- Proportion of people aged 65 and over discharged from hospital into reablement and who remained in the community within 12 weeks of discharge (ASCOF) - Number of adults whose long-term support needs are met by admission to residential and nursing care homes per 100,000 population, split by age (18-64, 65+) (ASCOF)

No output metrics included.

Neighbourhoods

People feel safe and included in their local community and are satisfied with their local area as a place to live

- Percentage of people who agree adults in their communities can be trusted (DCMS) - Percentage of people who feel they can influence local decisions (DCMS) - Percentage of people who are satisfied with community / cultural facilities in their local area (DCMS) [Placeholder, ready by launch] - Percentage of people who are satisfied with their local area as a place to live (DCMS) - Percentage of people who agree that people from different backgrounds get on well together in their local area (DCMS) - Percentage of people experiencing loneliness (DCMS) - Percentage of people who have engaged in volunteering recently (DCMS) - Percentage of people who reported in-person cultural engagement within the past 12-months (DCMS) - Anti-social behaviour [Placeholder] - Crime in your neighbourhood [Placeholder]

- Rate of fly-tipping enforcement actions per incident (Defra) - Access to green and blue spaces [Placeholder] - Rate of physical visits of people into library premises per population [Placeholder] (ACE)

Environment, circular economy and climate change

Support a healthier, more resilient natural and built environment, including responding to the risks and impacts of climate change to the benefit of communities

- Deaths attributable to particulate air pollution (particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter [PM2.5]) (DHSC) - Percentage of total household waste sent for recycling, compost and reuse (Defra) - Percentage of total household waste that is collected separately as food waste (Defra) - Residual household waste per household (Defra) - Flood resilience [Placeholder] - Climate change mitigation [Placeholder]

- Percentage of local sites in positive conservation management (Defra)

Transport and local infrastructure

Communities are better connected with healthier, safer, and greener transport that meets the needs of all users and drives growth

- Connectivity score for public transport to key services (DfT Connectivity Tool) (DfT) -Passenger journeys on local bus services per head by local authority (including disaggregation by concessionary pass journeys) (DfT) - Percentage of adults who engaged in active travel at least twice in the last 28 days (DfT) - Killed or seriously injured per billion vehicle miles (DfT) - Percentage of local authority motorways and A roads that should be considered for maintenance, split by road type (motorways and A roads; B and C roads; unclassified roads)  (DfT)

- Public EVSEs (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment per 100,000 population) (DfT) - Percentage change in service mileage year on year (DfT)

Economic prosperity and regeneration – contextual outcome

Foster local economic growth and prosperity

- 18-24 year olds in full-time education or employment (ONS) - Employment for 16-64 year olds (ONS) - Skills disparity metric - Percentage of working-age population with qualifications at Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) Level 4 or above (ONS) - Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) average score (MHCLG) - Income deprivation affecting children index (MHCLG) - Income deprivation affecting older people index (MHCLG)

- Births of new enterprises (ONS) - Deaths of enterprises (ONS) - Number of high growth enterprises (ONS) - Business density (ONS) - Business survival rate (ONS) - Gross value added per hour worked (ONS) - Gross median weekly pay (ONS) - Gross disposable household income (ONS) - Percentage of premises with gigabit-capable broadband coverage (Ofcom) - Percentage of area with outdoor 5G coverage from at least one provider (Ofcom)

Child poverty – contextual outcome

Reduce and alleviate child poverty to improve children’s lives and life chances

- Children in low-income families (DWP)

No output metrics included.