Council plans and performance

We regularly report on our performance so you can see how we’re doing at:

  • providing services for people and communities
  • delivering on our promises and priorities
  • using resources

This section holds our plans and performance reports, information on how we compare with other councils, and external agency assessments of our work.

Local Outcome Improvement & Council Strategic Plan to 2027

We base our plans on evidence from a wide range of research and information about local people and places.

Our Plan for Fife is Fife’s 10-year Local Outcome Improvement Plan developed with partners like the NHS - it is also the council’s strategic plan.

It puts fairness at the heart of everything we do, bringing services and communities together in new ways.

You can find out more about the full plan and the work being done to deliver on its ambitions in local areas at our.fife.scot/ourplan

In 2021, we published an update to the 10-year plan, setting out focused priorities to drive recovery and renewal following the pandemic. We’re working to tackle poverty and prevent crisis, lead economic recovery and address the climate emergency – taking a community wealth building approach to all we do.

Find out more about our priorities in our Plan for Fife Update: Recovery and Renewal 2021-24

Find out more about the progress we’re making.

Recent performance reports

Local research and information

Every three years we carry out a strategic assessment of how well people and communities across Fife are doing. In between this schedule we also conduct local assessments, that look at issues in different geographical areas in more detail.

We draw on a wide range of data and information gathered by the council and other local and national organisations.

We base our plans and priorities on all of this knowledge and insight.

You can find out more about the latest research in Fife at know.fife.scot

Service review reports

The council’s scrutiny committees consider performance and progress of different services. Each service produces an Annual Service Review Report.

These reports describe service responsibilities, strategic and operational priorities, and the progress made in the previous year. They also set out key areas of change and/or improvement and priorities for the next year.

Key performance indicators

We also monitor a range of local, regional and national performance indicators that cover all the council’s core services and activities.

This helps us assess our operational efficiency as well as our progress towards our Plan for Fife ambitions.

In the links below you can find our most recent performance against these indicators by service.

We also take annual service review reports to scrutiny committees to highlight progress and improvement activity in key areas.

How we compare and improve

We regularly compare our performance with other Scottish Local Authorities, to see how well we are doing.

Our LGBF Annual Report 2023/24 and LGBF Annual Report 2024/25 give an overview of Fife’s progress, and Appendix 1 includes a list of our Performance Indicators, along with their current status.

You can use the Local Government Benchmarking Framework (LGBF) to look at our performance against that of other Councils and see how we are doing, compared to the Scottish average.

You can also use the Community Planning Outcomes Profiling (CPOP) Tool to compare key life outcomes for local communities across Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs), Areas, and neighbourhoods within Fife.

In addition, The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 places a duty on all Councils to secure Best Value, which is defined as the delivery of continuous improvement in the performance of all the Council’s functions and activities.

The Council is subject to regular audit and inspection by a wide range of external scrutiny agencies.

The Accounts Commission has published a new statutory Direction regarding the information councils should publish about their performance.

The 2024 Statutory Performance Information (SPI) Direction is available via their website at: Accounts Commission Statutory Performance Information Direction 2024

Strategic documents and plans

View a list of all our strategic documents and plans

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Last updated: 16 Jun 2026

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