Between June 2003 and December 2004 the Audit Commission
completed a Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) assessment
of all 238 district councils in England.
Comprehensive Performance Assessments make judgements on the
quality of services and the council's capacity to deliver
improvements to those services.
Individual assessments of what each council does were combined
into an overall score, which placed them into one of five
performance categories - excellent, good, fair, weak or poor.
Suffolk Coastal’s CPA report was published in December 2004 and
rated the Council's performance as fair.
You can read
the press statement (new window PDF 18KB) issued
by Suffolk Coastal in response to the publication of the CPA
report. Follow the links below to view a summary
or the full report:
Following the report Suffolk Coastal produced a
CPA Improvement Plan (new window PDF
53KB) which was agreed with the Audit
Commission.
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In addition to the CPA assessment, district councils are
annually assessed by the Audit Commission on:
- What progress they made in the last year - direction of
travel.
- How they have managed their finances and provided value for
money - use of resources.
This assessment is included in the
Commission's Annual Audit and Inspection Letter which is
published annually in June.
Performance assessment scorecard and inspection reports
You can view
Suffolk Coastal's performance assessment
scorecard (new window) on the Audit Commission website.
Details of all of
the Audit Commission's inspection reports (new
window) for Suffolk Coastal are available on the Audit
Commission website.
Changes to district council CPA
In July 2006, the Audit Commission confirmed the process by
which councils could be re-categorised through a corporate
assessment. The Commission will only undertake CPA
re-categorisation activity in the following circumstances:
- Where a council requests re-categorisation and is able to
demonstrate significant evidence of improvement.
- Where the Commission identifies evidence of significant
deterioration.
Details of
the framework the Commission uses to assess district
councils (new window) are available on the Audit Commission
website.