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Guide to CPA and links to sport

Planning across boundaries
Guide to CPA
  CPA arrangements
  Performance Indicators
  Culture block
  Key lines of enquiry
  Preparing for a cultural services inspection
  General issues
  Lessons from other inspections

The process of local sport & recreation strategy preparation

Tools
IDeA: Partnership working

Case Studies
CPA Case Studies

Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) is changing. In the past there was a great emphasis on how your authority performed in terms of the Governments National Performance Indicators. These are still used, but only form part of a wider judgement.

The Audit commission are now looking for evidence that councils are making a real difference to people’s lives – they want outcome based evidence. They also want to see evidence of public participation in setting service standards, and in judging whether these have been met.

From a service perspective, the changes to CPA assessments represent an opportunity to improve the standing of your services, by showing how they contribute to the achievement of community and corporate outcomes.

To do this, we need to look at, not just how our own service is scored, but at the overall performance of the council. We also need to know how other councils, particularly councils similar to our own, are performing.

How to use this guide

If you would like an overview of how inspection works go to CPA arrangements
If you want to know how Performance indicators are used go to Performance indicators & Sport
If you want to know about the role of sport in CPA and the cultural block go to Culture block
If you want more information on the key lines of enquiry used by the Audit Commission to make judgements about sport and culture go to Key lines of enquiry
If your authority is facing a cultural services inspection soon go to Preparing for a cultural services inspection
You can also go straight to General issues for cultural services inspections or to Lessons from other inspections

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