Comprehensive Area Assessment

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Comprehensive Area Assessment

• Hazel Lymbery
• Clare Labram
• Derby City Partnership

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Briefing Outline

• Comprehensive Area Assessment
• Sustainable Community Strategy
• How to keep in touch
• Questions

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Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

• Imagine local residents being armed with the
  facts to hold all their local public services to
  account
• Audit Commission Press Release Feb 09

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Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

• Aiming for
• Improved local outcomes
• Independent assurance
• Progress against priorities
• Rationalising and coordinating inspections

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CAA Underpinning themes

• Sustainability
• Inequality
• People whose circumstances can make them
  vulnerable
• Value for money
• Impact of the recession and response

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Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

• Comprehensive
• Replaces CPA, JAR,APA, but remaining
  inspections for specific services
• Area
• Derby (LAA area)
• Assessment
• Outcomes/improvements for Area
• Organisational performance for City Council
  and some partners
• Not a one off event-ongoing conversation

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How will CAA work?

• Led by the Audit Commission from 1st April 2009-
  Focus on Organisations and the Area
• Look at our current performance data/information-
  Background Notes
• What do we think is important locally? -Derbys
  Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA priorities
• Focus on our future prospects

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Area Assessment

• 3 key questions for the Area Assessment
• How well do the SCS priorities and LAA reflect
  what our local communities say they need?
• Through our services we are delivering, are we
  making a real difference to peoples lives?
• Are we likely to improve in the future?- most
  important question, report will be based on this

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Organisational Assessment

• To ensure accountability at an organisational
  level
• Councils Scored on management of resources,
  finance, performance and providing value for
  money
• Runs alongside individual assessment frameworks
  Health and Social Care, Children and Young
  People, Police, Fire and Youth Offending

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Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

• Derby is completing a Self Assessment-link to SCS
  and LAA to tell Derbys story
• Partnership governance via Derby City Partnership
  Management Group and DCP Board and Council Cabinet

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Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
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What does this mean?

• Beverly Parker lead Inspector plus 3 other
  Inspectors-already in conversation
• Submit Derbys Self Assessment plus comments on
  Background notes by 17 April
• Inspectors attendance at DCP City Executives
  during May/June
• Audit Commission emerging thoughts to 8 June DCP
  Board
• Audit Commission themed discussions during
  July/August
• Draft Audit Commission report to 7 September DCP
  Board
• Final report published November 2009

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Derbys Sustainable Community Strategy

• Is the overarching strategy for the city
• Sets the strategic vision for Derby
• Tackle difficult issues for example social
  inclusion and climate change
• Prepared in consultation with local people,
  businesses, public and the voluntary/community
  sector
• Has a strong evidence base
• Establishes long term objectives and short term
  priorities
• Balance and integrate social, environmental and
  economic needs and goals

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Sustainable Community Strategy

• Two year Strategy 2009-2011- published in April
• Each City chapter contains early priorities for
  action and longer term to 2020

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Derbys Sustainable Community Strategy

• Our 2020 Vision
• Derby will be a place where people of all ages
  and from all walks of life will feel they belong
  to Derby and that Derby offers them everything
  they need-for work, education, housing, leisure
  and a safe and healthy lifestyle

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Key ambitions

• City that builds a brighter future for Children
  and Young People who enjoy a healthy, safe and
  happy childhood, with the opportunity to achieve
  their full potential
• City of Growth, opportunity and innovation, a
  thriving and attractive city for all with an
  environment that we will sustain and protect for
  future generations
• City with Stronger, Safer and Cleaner Communities
  where everyone feels safe and confident in their
  daily lives
• Significant Cultural City that inspires, engages
  and
• celebrates diversity
• Healthy City where people enjoy long, healthy and
  independent lives

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Key Principles

• Ensuring that Derby has a positive reputation,
  image and profile
• Sustainable development-improving the quality of
  life.
• Equal life chances
• Raising aspiration, ambition and achievement
• Involving people in decision making

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What do you need to do?

• Read the Sustainable Community Strategy-understand
  your partnership links/connections
• Talk to your colleagues/teams/manager about how
  CAA might effect you
• Respond quickly if asked for information to
  support the CAA
• Continue to meet local peoples needs

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How to keep in touch

• DCP Briefing sessions on the CAA
• 20th April 4-5 7th floor St Peters Hse
• Book with anna_at_derbycitypartnership.co.uk
• Check Council intranet for CAA updates
• For DCP information
• e-bulletins
• www.derbycitypartnership.co.uk
• Whats new? sessions
• Contact us!