THE Vale of Glamorgan Council has been ranked as the highest performing local authority in Wales for the second year running.

The 2015/16 government performance bulletin, by the Data Unit Wales, assesses councils’ performance in 44 high priority areas.

The Vale council was ranked in the top group of councils for 26 of these and recorded perfect performance for nine key areas of its work.

It performed better than the average in 75 per cent of all measures when compared with other councils in south east Wales and in 77 per cent of the indicators when compared with all councils across the country.

Achievements in these areas included ensuring that no pupils left compulsory education, training or work based learning without an approved external qualification and that all of the Vale’s carers needs were assessed.

Councillor Neil Moore, leader of the Vale of Glamorgan council, said: "After topping the performance table in 2015, I said that we could not be complacent and must push ourselves to do in even better in future.

"This is exactly what has happened. We have not just maintained our position, but have in fact improved our performance in more than half of these vital areas of our work"