Projects
For the Audit Commission - Comprehensive Performance Assessment and deprivation
Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) is the process by which the performance of all local authorities in England is assessed by the Audit Commission. Each year, every local authority is given a ranking, ranging from 'excellent' to 'poor', based on a combination of inspections and performance indicators.
Since the first CPA round of scores was published at the end of 2002, there has been a certain amount of criticism from third parties about its handling of deprivation, starting from the observation that authorities with higher levels of deprivation tended to have lower CPA scores. In reaction, the Audit Commission commissioned the New Policy Institute to investigate the relationships between deprivation and CPA and to make recommendations for improvements to the CPA process for implementation in the 2005 round.