Covalent for Councils

Discover how Covalent transforms performance in Councils by streamlining the statutory reporting processes and initiatives related to CPA and the Single Outcome Agreement.

Covalent addresses the very specific needs of Councils relating to the CPA Framework, Single Outcome Agreement and other more service-specific performance reporting requirements. It will also help manage the requirements to for project management and effective risk assessments.

Covalent consolidates all critical performance information in a single, comprehensive web-based system that is tightly linked to the council's vision and community strategy, its key themes, strategic priorities and high-level objectives.

• Manage inspections betterreporting compliance on CPA and the relevant KLOEs. Covalent gives you a holistic view of the Authority’s performance and allows you to easily measure yourself against the frameworks. A powerful Inspection Management tool Covalent supports structured, consistent self assessments against the pre-defined frameworks and consolidates the necessary supporting evidence to meets inspectors’ requirements.
• Powerful Performance Reporting on National Performance Indicators (BVPIs and the new National Indicator set) that also enhances the delivery of key performance information to all of your various stakeholders. Covalent’s intuitive, visually-rich software consolidates performance data from various systems to give users personalised views specific to their area of interest.
• Produce thorough Risk Assessment reports at ’push-of-a-button’. Covalent Risks consolidates all the identified risks - score on an Impact/ Likelihood matrix - and tracks progress with mitigation action plans or internal controls.
• Manage Partnership working with other public bodies in LAAs, LSPs and the forthcoming Comprehensive Area Agreements (CAAs). Covalent Actions is a powerful tool for managing the hundreds of projects and strategic/operational initiatives ongoing across the organisation and in various partnership initiatives.
• Align performance information with the Authority's strategy to monitor progress towards achievement of corporate aims, priorities and operational objectives. You can use Scorecards to present the strategy in a hierarchical tree that maps Performance Indicators, Actions and possibly Risks at each level. Scorecards highlight interdependencies between activities and typically cascade down through different levels in the Authority to tie everything together.