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Sport in the Culture block
Background
Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) is the performance management framework used by the Audit Commission and central Government, to measure local authority performance and drive improvement in the sector. Local government spends approximately £1 billion per year on sport and leisure, more than 50% of the total resources available to sport.
Sport England has worked successfully with key partners to secure a culture block, which includes sport, in the new CPA framework for 2005-08 for Upper Tier Authorities. The culture block has an equal weighting alongside the housing and environment service blocks. This reflects a significant improvement on its previous position. Ensuring this strengthened culture block is embedded within the CPA framework for upper tier authorities 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 for Sport.
For more information about the CPA go to the CPA website
Download the Framework for Sport in England (PDF 2.9Mb)
Find out more about the nine regional sport plans
How will performance be measured?
Over the next three years there will be a shift in emphasis away from inspection results and towards Performance Indicators (PIs). Sport England has been working on a basket of robust PIs for sport and physical activity, which will be introduced during 2006 and 2007.
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. This is suitable for assessment of a cultural service as a whole, or solely for sport and recreation.
Peformance 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:
We have committed significant resources to collecting data for the above-proposed 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:
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