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  • Total Place programme

    10 December 2009

    Budget 2009 has announced the beginning of the Total Place programme

  • John Denham - Welcomes tough new test for public services putting the customer first

    10 December 2009

    A powerful new tool giving local people unprecedented information about the standard of public services in their area has been welcomed by Communities Secretary John Denham

  • Audit Commission website

    20 May 2009

    The recent Audit Commission website re-launch has resulted in many of the Audit Commission links on our website no longer linking to the correct documents. We are working to resolve this and in the mean time click on the title of this item to take you to the new Audit Commission website

  • Innovative joint assessments of England's local areas get under way today

    1 April 2009

    Work on a new way of assessing the quality and effectiveness of local public services starts this week. Later this year residents will be able to see how their areas are doing, based on focused judgements of the outcomes from spending and services

  • New council assessment regime will address toughest local challenges

    13 February 2009

    CAA will report on how well councils and their partners are managing the challenges that come with tough economic times, supporting local businesses and ensuring that services are there for the people who need them the most, while still planning for the future

  • Inspection revolution: Watchdogs unveil blueprint for new scrutiny of local public services

    11 February 2009

    From 1 April six independent inspectorates - the Audit Commission, Ofsted, the new Care Quality Commission and HM Inspectorates of Probation, Prisons and Constabulary – will be working to gather information and make joint assessments about public services in every area of England. Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) will reflect the new era of public service partnership working, and launches against a backdrop of recession, in which councils and their partners have a newly-defined role to help their local economies recover from the effects of the downturn

  • Comprehensive Area Assessment

    15 September 2008

    This is the second joint consultation document from the joint inspectorates setting out a proposed approach to the new Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA). The partner inspectorates are consulting on proposals for the CAA framework to be introduced in April 2009, with first reports published in November 2009

    The inspectorates have listened to the feedback from the first joint consultation on CAA, and this has formed the basis for the second. Key changes are the simplification of the main elements into just two, Area Assessments and Organisational Assessments, and the use of the National Indicator Set of 198 core performance indicators

    The consultation period will run from 29 July to 20 October 2008. The proposals are being trialled at ten sites across the country to test them in ‘real life’ situations. The arrangements for CAA will then be finalised early in 2009

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  • Audit Commission aims for stable and consistent framework as CPA enters its final year

    7 August 2008

    The Audit Commission has announced only minimal change to the framework for the last ever round of Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). The decision follows consultation with English single-tier councils and county councils which indicated that 92 per cent supported the proposed final update to the Harder Test assessment programme established three years ago

  • Comprehensive Performance Assessments: The Harder test Framework for 2008 - Consultation

    8 April 2008

    This consultation seeks views on proposals for the final year of comprehensive performance assessments

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