Comprehensive Area Assessment

Regional Consultation

- Helping to design a new approach to local service improvement.

Comprehensive Area Assessment The new joint inspectorate assessment framework for local services from 2009

CAA is about places and people

CAA will give people a snapshot of life in their local area each year

CAA will be a catalyst for further improvement

in quality of life and local services

CAA will provide an independent view of

whether people are getting value for

money from their local services

CAA will be a mechanism for

coordinating and rationalising inspection

Action Learning

A new joint iterative approach to developing the framework

• CAA– Hampshire – Thurrock

• CAA excluding use of resources– Tees Valley Partnership – covering the

areas of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton on Tees.

– Barking and Dagenham

For Areas

1. Annual area risk assessment (“prospects for the area and the quality of life for local people”) and

2. Analysis of performance against the 198 national indicators undertaken by inspectorates jointly.

The inter-relationship between local services

For councils and Fire Authorities:

3. Annual direction of travel assessment (by inspectorates jointly for councils) and

4. Annual use of resources judgement (by appointed auditor with input from other inspectorates for councils)

Value for money in the use of resources

For Primary Care Trusts and police authorities:

• Use of resources judgements by

appointed auditor

CAA and the other performance frameworks

What CAA will report

ARA

NIS

UoR

DoT

UoR

DoT

UoR

UoR(PCTs)

Ofstedreports

Assessments reported:ARA - Area Risk AssessmentNIS - National Indicator SetUoR - Use of ResourcesDoT - Direction of Travel

Area based reportsOrganisation based reports

• Outcome focused, therefore area-based not just institutionally based• More forward-looking• Greater attention to local priorities• Joint assessment judgements by inspectorates, not just an assembly of separate assessments• Joint planning and targeting of inspection

with fewer rolling programmes of inspection

Key differences from now

Key points in the consultation paper

• Fit with other performance frameworks• Relationship between CAA and Government Office / fieldforce role • Engaging with communities and protecting vulnerable people• CAA in two-tier counties and London• Approach to scoring and reporting• Operational approach between inspectorates to reduce administrative impact of inspection / assessment

Timetable

Feb 2008

Feb 2008

Apr 2008

Jun 2008

July 2008

Summer 2008

Late 2008 / early 2009

Jan/Feb 2009

Oct/Nov 2009

CPA results for 2007 published

First joint CAA consultation closes

AC CAA Leads appointed

New-style LAAs agreed

Further joint consultation on CAA published

Second round of action learning

CAA framework published

Final set of CPA results

First round of CAA reporting

Questions