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Blunt instrument doesn't show the whole picture

Heather Jameson says the league tables ministers wanted to avoid are here to stay. 'They will just need to get better at providing a fuller picture.'

Oflog is definitely not a league table. Until somebody turns it into one.

As swathes of council seats come up for grabs this week, The Times newspaper has done exactly what local government feared someone would: it has created a league table from Oflog performance data and gifted us headlines about Britain's ‘worst' councils.

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