Context
The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) is the government’s new annual assessment framework for local areas and it was launched in April 2009.
People deserve clear and impartial information about how well they are being served by their local public services, how their area compares with elsewhere and what the prospects are for the improvement of quality of life in their area. This information will help people to hold those providing local public services to account for their performance and use of public money.
What matters locally varies from place to place. The Sustainable Community Strategy sets out the local challenges and agreed priorities for the area and the Local Area Agreement sets out the improvement targets up to March 2011. These documents will form the starting point for the CAA leading to the assessment of:
- prospects for future improvement in the most important outcomes
- how well the local partners understand their local communities and reflect this in their priorities
- how well served local people are currently
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