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Signposting sustainability through the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)

[Posted: 27 October 2009]

Denny Gray from CAG has recently developed a briefing on sustainability in the new Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) that has been developed by the various public service inspectorates.

The CAA is the new performance framework for local services, which started in April 2009, and sustainability is one of its underpinning themes. Denny is undertaking this briefing for the Improvement and Development Commission (IDeA) and the Audit Commission.

The briefing is aimed principally at local authority performance officers, although will also be useful for other officers, Members and Local Strategic Partnership partners. The briefing highlights how sustainability relates to the sub-themes in the CAA’s area assessment, and includes ‘prompts’ to help local authorities and their partners to consider sustainability issues in the work they do.

You can find an online version of the briefing on the “Improvement Network‘s” website - a website which is sponsored by a number of bodies including the Audit Commission and the IDeA.

http://www.improvementnetwork.gov.uk/imp/core/page.do?pageId=1090833

(It will also be available shortly as a PDF.)