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.

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