CPA Performance Information
The new scoring system for councils, called the Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA), takes an overall look at how well each council provides services and its ability to improve. The result is a scorecard that rates each council as excellent, good, fair, weak or poor.
The CPA score is important because it forms the basis for how a council is treated by government by providing freedoms and flexibilities, to improve services and make more decisions without Government intervention. The CPA assessment is undertaken by the Audit Commission.
Self Assessment
Following the Council's Comprehensive Performance Assessment in October 2004 the Audit Commission are now undertaking a formal assessment of the progress that the Council has made in addressing the issues it raised.
The initial stage in this process is the production of a 'Self Assessment Report' that reflects an appraisal of improvement that the Council considers it has achieved.