Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) is the new framework for the independent assessment of local public services in England. CAA replaces Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA), which has been the inspection and assessment framework for local authorities since 2002 and came into effect on 1 April 2009. The first judgements will be published in November 2009
CAA has two main elements which will inform each other:
- an area assessment that looks at how well local public services are delivering better results for local people across the whole area, focusing on agreed priorities such as health, economic prospects and community safety, and how likely they are to improve in the future; and
- organisational assessments for councils, combining the external auditor’s assessment of value for money in the use of resources with a joint inspectorate assessment of council service performance.
Preparation for assessment will be undertaken by the Audit Commission using evidence from other inspection work and draw on the information that is available nationally and that used locally to avoid making extra demands on local services.
Assessments will be made publicly available every year starting in November 2009, and will provide an annual snapshot of quality of life in the area.
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