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Update - CPA 2007 and Transition from CPA to CAA (Comprehensive Area Assessment)
The Audit Commission (AC) are currently consulting on the above (please refer to The Transition from CPA to CAA.
The closing date for initial consultation is 14 June 2007.
The AC have retained the sport indicators ‘participation’, ‘volunteering’ and ‘choice and opportunity’ for the cultural service assessments for 2007 but have not included the ‘equity’ and ‘value for money’ indicators. These indicators are however, important measures in assisting local authorities to improve their services for local communities and are very useful local measures, to be considered as part of their local basket of indicators in future Local Area Agreements.
Sport England has worked successfully with key partners to secure a culture service assessment, which includes sport, in the CPA framework for 2005-08 for single tier and county councils. The culture service assessment has an equal weighting alongside the housing and environment service assessments in the overall CPA framework. Ensuring this strengthened culture service assessment is embedded within the CPA framework for single tier and county councils will help to focus resources on sport and leisure and strengthen our ability to achieve the national participation targets for sport set out in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets and also reflected in the Framework for Sport in England and the Nine Regional Plans Sport Plans.
The participation, volunteering and choice and opportunity indicators were included in the culture service assessments for single tier authorities in 2006. For county councils these sport related indicators do not form part of the culture service assessment but performance, where appropriate, will be reviewed through the corporate assessment, which addresses issues of partnership working and delivering shared priorities, including healthier communities. There is no culture service assessment for district councils but again performance on these indicators, where appropriate, will be reviewed through any corporate assessments carried out.
All CPA performance information including county and district council data is provided to the Audit Commission for use in the Corporate Assessment.
For more information on how these indicators were applied in the culture service assessment for 2006, including the relevant thresholds, please contact the Audit Commission: 0207 166 2394, or refer to CPA - The Harder Test 2006.
How will performance be measured?
The AC have outlined a number of options for their transition year 2008/9 i.e. CPA to CAA. These are included in their consultation paper The Transition from CPA to CAA. Which ever option is chosen will determine how performance will be measured. There is however,an underlying shift in emphasis away from inspection results and towards qualitative and quantative performance indicators.
There is also an increasing emphasis on self-assessment and self-improvement. To assist with this, Sport England has worked with the sector to develop an appropriate model - Towards an Excellent Service (TAES) - and a system of external validation. Sport England is also working with the cultural sector to develop a self assessment/improvement model to be used across the sector. This is currently being piloted.
Performance indicators for sport
The sport performance indicators (PIs) have been developed in line with the DCMS national participation public service agreement (PSA) targets that are also reflected in the Framework for Sport and Regional Plans.
These are:
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Participation
The percentage of adults participating in at least 30 minutes moderate intensity sport and active recreation (including recreational walking) on 3 or more days a week
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Volunteering
The percentage of the population volunteering in sport and active recreation for at least one hour a week
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Equity - will not be used in the CPA 2007/8
Representative facility use by
- people from the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups
- young people aged 11-19yrs
- people from black and minority ethnic groups
- people aged over 60 yrs
Proportion of facility use by disabled people aged under 60yrs
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Value for money - will not be used in the CPA 2007/8
Subsidy per visit
Visits per square metre
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Choice and opportunity
Percentage of the population that are within 20 minutes travel time (Urban areas – by walk; Rural areas – by car) of a range of three different sports facility types of which one has achieved a quality assured standard
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We have committed significant resources to collecting data for the above indicators on behalf of the local authorities through the National Benchmarking Service, Active Places and the Active People Survey.
Other sport related indicators in the culture block:
- Percentage of total length of footpaths and other rights of way easy to use by members of the public
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- Resident satisfaction with sport/leisure facilities
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- Resident satisfaction with parks/open spaces
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- Percentage of 5-16 year olds engaged in 2 hours a week minimum on high-quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum
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