Comprehensive Performance Assessment

Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) is an annual assessment by the Audit Commission of the performance of councils and the services they provide for local people. This is achieved by bringing together a Corporate Assessment, Use of Resources and Service Assessments to give an overall performance star category alongside a direction of travel assessment.

The service assessments are Services for Children and Young People, Social Care Services for Adults, Environment, Housing, Culture and Benefits.

The scores for service assessments use performance indicator results, including Best Value Performance Indicators, and results of service inspections. The Audit Commission is increasingly using performance indicator results with less emphasis on inspections to reach annual scores.

The Corporate Assessment is a periodic inspection looking at how well the Council manages performance and service delivery.

Corporate Assessment 2007

The Corporate Assesment took place in May 2007

The Corporate Assesment report(pdf, 160KB).

In preparation for this we are required to submit a self-assessment that covers the key lines of enquiry that the Audit Commission concentrate:

• The Council’s self-assessment(pdf, 160KB).
• The Council's self assessment case studies(pdf, 125KB).

Comprehensive Performance Assesment 2007

The Council achieved an overall score of 3 (on a scale of 0-4) for CPA 2007

The full CPA scorecard. (Audit Commission website)

More information about the CPA

You can find out more about the CPA process and the grades of other councils on the Audit Commission website www.audit-commission.gov.uk.