Sectors

Local Government

Covalent is the most functionally rich, easy-to-use Performance Management system available for Local Government. Covalent is proven-in-action in all council types - Counties, Unitaries, London Boroughs, Districts, Mets - across the UK and internationally, delivering a comprehensive solution that integrates all corporate performance elements with powerful reporting capabilities.

Social Housing

Covalent is the most functionally rich performance management system available for Social Housing providers. Covalent is proven-in-action for Social Housing providers of all sizes in Wales, England and Scotland, delivering a comprehensive solution that integrates all corporate performance elements with powerful reporting capabilities.

The changing nature of housing sector regulation, with the Homes and Communities Agency regulatory committee taking over from the Tenant Services Agency, places new demands. Covalent helps housing providers meet the HCA's economic regulation standards relating to governance, financial viability and rent setting, and the new Value for Money standard. In particular Covalent supports boards and councillors who govern providers' service delivery and are accountable for their organisation's delivery of its social housing objectives. Covalent also helps housing providers govern the consumer standards - Tenant involvement and empowerment, Home, Tenancy, Neighbourhood and community.

FE Colleges

Covalent's Performance Management system is proven-in-action in FE Colleges across the UK as a tool to improve college-wide performance, governance, risk management and business planning, delivering a comprehensive solution that integrates all corporate performance elements with powerful reporting capabilities.

Further Education Colleges face significant challenges due to the introduction of the most complex funding methodology to date, which essentially means that they have to deliver 'more with less'. With the ever-changing and increasing number of funding targets set and a need to know that they will hit both their funding allocation and their tuition fees income, it is crucial for colleges to be alerted to problems of potential underperformance across the curriculum quickly and early enough to take remedial action to avoid massive penalties.

NHS

The Covalent NHS system is a functionally rich monitoring and reporting tool that manages Performance, Governance, Risk & Compliance in one fully-integrated system.

• Performance: National & Local Indicators, Outcomes Framework, Monitor Compliance Framework, CQUINS, Workforce Indicators, Clinical Audit, Action Plans
• Risks: Risk Registers, Incidents, Complaints, Board Assurance Framework, CAS Alerts
• Compliance: CQC, Hygiene Code, NHSLA, IG Tool Kit, NICE Guidelines, Policy Management

Covalent is used by both commissioning and provider NHS organisations – NHS Trusts (Acute, Mental Health, Community Health), Ambulance Services, CCGs and CSUs as well as NHS Scotland Health Boards.

Fire Authorities

Fire authorities face unprecedented pressure to reduce spending and find efficiency savings whilst continuing to improve service quality - the so-called 'more for less' strategy - in line with the National Framework. They need to demonstrate better value for money by focusing management effort and increasingly limited resources on improving outcomes whilst minimising the risk of non-delivery. Cost control plans need to be driven by aligning budgets to the high priority local outcomes, alone and in partnership with other public bodies.

Police Authorities

Police authorities face unprecedented pressure to reduce spending and find efficiency savings whilst continuing to improve service quality - the so-called 'more for less' strategy. The New Performance Framework is focused on outcomes and their delivery through stronger partnership working. This means securing efficient and effective policing, ensuring delivery of the national target of increasing public confidence, and the Policing Pledge; and working towards safer communities.

Other Public Sector

The UK Public Sector faces unprecedented pressure to reduce spending and find efficiency savings whilst continuing to improve service quality - the so-called 'more for less' strategy. Public bodies need to demonstrate better value for money by focusing management effort and increasingly limited resources on improving outcomes whilst minimising the risk of non-delivery. Cost control plans need to be driven by aligning budgets to the high priority local outcomes.