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Council Performance

Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA)

The Audit Commission is an independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is used economically, efficiently and effectively. In order to assess how well a council is delivering services to the public the Audit Commission conducts Comprehensive Performance Assessments, annually generating a rating for each council.

To see how well the Council compares to other authorities:

This is an external link icon visit the Audit Commission website

To view the Council's most up-to-date rating and learn more about CPA follow the link below:

this is an internal link icon Comprehensive Performance Assessment

Inspections, reviews and audits
View a summary of recent inspection results and future inspections here:

This is an internal link icon Inspections, reviews and audits

Best Value Reviews

Local councils must demonstrate to local people that they are achieving continuous improvement in all of their services. Until recently each authority was obliged to undertake Best Value Reviews of all their services once every five years.

The requirement to review all services every five years has been removed but councils are still required to conduct reviews. They are asked to prioritise the services to be reviewed.

These priorities will be discussed and agreed with the Audit Commission as part of the action plan following an authority's Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). The completed reviews will continue to be scrutinised by an independent inspectorate so that the public will know whether Best Value is being achieved.

The purpose of the reviews is to:

  • examine whether a service is being delivered to the appropriate quality and at the appropriate cost
  • develop plans for continuous improvement
  • ensure that all services contribute to the Council's strategic objectives

For further information on Best Value please click on the link below:

this is an internal link icon Best Value Performance


Quarterly performance reports
The Council measures its performance against a number of nationally set targets known as performance indicators and a number of locally specific targets. Progress against these targets is reported quarterly, to view these reports please follow the links below:

This is a pdf document icon Quarter 3 2006/07 (252KB)

This is a pdf document icon Quarter 4 2006/07 (595KB)

this is a pdf document icon Quarter 1 2007/08 (101KB)

this is a pdf document icon Quarter 2 2007/08 (237KB)




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