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Comprehensive Area Assessment

Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) looks at how well local services are working together to improve the quality of life for local people. It will make straightforward independent information available to people about their local services, helping them make informed choices and influence decisions.

It is about people and places
It will give people a snapshot of life in their local area each year
It will help local services improve quality of life in their area
It will help people understand if they are getting value for money from their local services

Combining the perspectives of the seven partner inspectorates, CAA will provide a joint assessment of outcomes for people in an area and a forward look at prospects for sustainable improvement.

For the first time, local public services will be held collectively to account for their impact on better outcomes. This means that CAA will look across councils, health bodies, police forces, fire and rescue services and others responsible for local public services, which are increasingly expected to work in partnership to tackle the challenges facing their communities.

CAA will focus on highlighting barriers to improvement and identifying success and innovation from which others can learn. In this way CAA will be:

a catalyst for better local outcomes, more responsive services and better value for money;
a source of independent information and assurance for citizens, service users and taxpayers;
an independent evidence base for central government on progress against national priorities; and
a means of rationalising and coordinating inspection.

CAA will look most at what matters locally. It may cover issues like improving access to healthcare, increasing the availability of affordable housing, reducing the fear of crime, improving educational achievement, attracting investment or reducing the area's carbon footprint. The issues assessed in each area will reflect local priorities for improving quality of life and protecting people at most risk of disadvantage.

CAA Update 25/06/10

The Coalition of the new government has agreed that it will cut local government inspection and abolish the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).

Ending the CAA will remove the overall organisational assessment ratings for Councils and Fire Authorities. Ofstead’s annual assessment of Children’s Services will continue for the time being, but the longer term of the arrangement is being reviewed. CQC’s period assessment of adult social care will also continue although they are planning to adopt a more risk based approach in the future.

Comprehensive Area Assessment

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