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BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LTD

What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.

What is held for this supplier

At least £129,544 across 18 councils since 2019/20

This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".

Canonical id
best-practice-network
Councils that published a payment
18
Payments published
92
Latest year held
2026/27

What each council published, by year

At least this much, per council per financial year. Each figure is what that council published and nothing else.
Council2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Blackburn with Darwenn/an/an/an/an/a£895n/an/a£8951
Blackpooln/an/an/an/an/a£1,620n/an/a£1,6201
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poolen/an/an/an/an/a£1,298n/an/a£1,2981
Devon County Counciln/a£7,680£3,960£3,600£740n/an/an/a£16k8
Ealingn/an/a£7,950£13k£3,710n/an/an/a£24k9
Essexn/an/an/an/a£21k£24kn/an/a£45k31
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/a£11kn/an/a£11k12
Lancashiren/an/an/an/an/a£4,310£2,040n/a£6,3507
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/a£5,475n/an/a£5,4754
Portsmouthn/an/an/an/an/an/a£725n/a£7252
Salfordn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£895£8951
Somersetn/an/an/an/an/a£798£3,115n/a£3,9138
Staffordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,193£2,1932
Stoke-on-Trentn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,350n/a£1,3501
Suffolkn/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,095n/a£4,0951
Walsalln/an/an/a£2,250n/an/an/an/a£2,2501
Warwickshire£2,250n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,2501
Wolverhamptonn/an/an/an/an/a£563n/an/a£5631

These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.

The largest payments published

The largest single payments to this supplier in the files held, each as the council published it.
CouncilDateAmountDescription
Essex22 Mar 2024£20,720SERVICES FEES & CHARGES
Essex6 Sept 2024£11,100SERVICES FEES & CHARGES
Ealing31 Aug 2021£5,565Services Contracts Agency Interim Consultants
Ealing20 Jun 2022£5,565Services Contracts Agency Interim Consultants
Devon County Council4 Mar 2021£4,9501802
Suffolk10 Apr 2025£4,09501300-Training
Ealing22 May 2023£3,710Services Contracts Agency Interim Consultants
Ealing30 Nov 2022£3,578Services Contracts Agency Interim Consultants
Ealing20 Jun 2022£3,445Services Contracts Agency Interim Consultants
Oxfordshire12 Nov 2024£2,290Best Practice Network Ltd
Devon County Council23 Nov 2020£2,2501802
Devon County Council26 Sept 2022£2,2501802
Walsall19 Oct 2022£2,2501217-Professional Fees & Services
Warwickshire18 Apr 2019£2,250Training
Devon County Council2 Jun 2021£1,9801802
Devon County Council2 Feb 2022£1,9804376
Blackpool12 Sept 2024£1,620PRU
Devon County Council27 Sept 2022£1,3501802
Lancashire18 Sept 2024£1,350n/a
Stoke-on-Trent21 Oct 2025£1,350n/a

A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.

Which councils and years contributed

Covers 18 councils and 8 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Devon County Council, Ealing, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Salford, Somerset, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Suffolk, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton.

A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.

The council pages behind these figures

Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.

How this page was built

A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.

Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.

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