Arrangements for Comprehensive Performance Assessment and fire and rescue performance assessment 2008
Public reporting of the overall Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) category and associated scores will occur in February 2009.
The Commission set out the arrangements for reporting in a letter to all councils (PDF, 108Kb) and fire and rescue authorities (PDF, 94Kb) on 4 September. Any changes or amendments to those arrangements are shown below.
We update this page at regular intervals - please check back frequently to see any changes.
Use the links below to view details of any changes or amendments to the arrangements:
| Section |
Last updated |
| Nominated CPA contact |
Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
| PI Profiles - general |
Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
| PI Profiles - for use in direction of travel |
Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
| PI Profiles - for use in corporate assessments |
Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
| Data Verification |
Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
| Ready reckoner |
Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
| Publication schedule |
Tuesday 16 September 2008 |
View information on the fire performance assessment.
View information on single tier and county council service assessment framework.
If you have any general CPA queries not answered on these pages please email cpa@audit-commission.gov.uk
Nominated CPA contact
Information and queries about the data and reporting will be sent to your nominated CPA contact. You can choose to add 'courtesy copy' contacts if you wish.
To change your primary CPA contact, or cc contacts, please complete the primary CPA contact sheet (Word, 65Kb) and return to cpa@audit-commission.gov.uk. Please note that it may take up to five days for revisions to become effective.
PI Profiles - general
On the 3 December, updates to the Performance Indicator Profiles were made. The Profiles now contain final 2007/08 BVPIs and draft non-BVPI 2007/08 data. Further information about PI Profiles can be found on the homepage of the PI profiles.
PI Profiles - for use in direction of travel
No changes to the published process have been made.
PI Profiles - for use in corporate assessments
No changes to the published process have been made
Data verification
No changes to the published process have been made.
Councils: Indicative data verification timetable
The following table sets out the data that will be made available on the verification site and by when, the data by which you need to raise queries.
| Data type |
PI CPA reference |
Data verification site open |
Data verification site closed |
| Housing - HSSA |
H18, H23 |
17/09/2008 |
25/09/2008 |
| Housing - P1E (Excel, 160Kb) |
P1E H16, H22f, H22 |
15/10/2008 |
24/10/2008 |
| Housing - BPSA |
H4, H5, H9 |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Libraries |
C2a-c, C3a/b, C4, C11a-c, C13, C14a |
22/10/2008 |
31/10/2008 |
| Museums accreditation |
C15 |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Active people and places |
C19 |
03/11/2008 |
12/11/2008 |
| Local participation survey |
C17, C18 |
03/12/2008 |
10/12/2008 |
| Children in sport |
C16 |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Local Transport Plan |
E1 |
22/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Road Accidents |
E12, E40 |
01/10/2008 |
10/10/2008 |
| Secretary of State intervention under traffic management powers |
E19 |
19/12/2008 |
31/12/2008 |
| Benefits |
PM2, PM3, PM4, PM10, PM11, PM17, PM18, PM19 |
17/09/2008 |
25/09/2008 |
| Trading Standards |
E30, E31, E32, E33 |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Cleanliness of public places |
E4 |
19/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Metadata |
Various |
22/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| BVPI data (EDC)* |
Excl. Benefits |
27/11/2008 |
04/12/2008 |
| BVPI data (EDC)* |
Benefits audited |
27/11/2008 |
04/12/2008 |
| BVPI data (Non-EDC)* |
Children and young people |
TBC |
TBC |
| BVPI data (Non-EDC)* |
Social services (adults) |
27/11/2008 |
04/12/2008 |
| BVPI data (Non-EDC)* |
Corporate assessments (upto and including block 20) |
27/11/2008 |
04/12/2008 |
| BVPI data (Non-EDC)* |
Corporate assessments (upto and including block 21) |
12/01/2009 |
16/01/2009 |
| Fire and rescue* |
All F indicators |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Please note that data types marked * are for checking factual inaccuracies only. |
Please note that the dates are an indication only. These dates may change as we are reliant on receiving the data from other sources. We will inform you of any changes.
Fire and rescue authorities: Indicative data verification timetable
The following table sets out the data that will be made available on the verification site and by when, the date by which you need to raise queries.
| Data type |
PI CPA reference |
Data verification site open |
Data verification site closed |
| Fire and rescue* |
All F indicators |
29/10/2008 |
07/11/2008 |
| Please note that data types marked * are for checking factual inaccuracies only. |
Please note that the dates are an indication only. These dates may change as we are reliant on receiving the data from other sources. We will inform you of any changes.
Ready reckoner
Access details for the CPA 2008 ready reckoner have been sent to the nominated CPA contact at each authority.
Publication schedule
No changes to the published process have been made
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