Issue - meetings

Report of Chief Executive

Summary

To provide an overview of the Audit Commission’s Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) which comes into effect from 1 April 2009

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended to:

1)                 Note this overview of the Comprehensive Area Assessment.

2)                 Take the opportunity of the attendance of our Comprehensive Area                              Assessment Lead at the meeting to ask him any further questions      

                        about this new assessment.

3)                 Endorse Cherwell’s participation in a county-wide officers group         

                        working to ensure that the Oxfordshire Local Authorities, Thames                                 Valley Police and NHS Oxfordshire are best-placed for the first                                    inspection of their work together to tackle local issues.

Agreed

The Chief Executive submitted a report to provide an overview of the Audit Commission’s Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) which came into effect from 1 April 2009

Resolved

That Cherwell’s participation in a county-wide officers group working to ensure that the Oxfordshire Local Authorities, Thames Valley Police and NHS Oxfordshire are best-placed for the first inspection of their work together to tackle local issues be endorsed.

Reasons - CAA is a joint assessment made by a group of independent inspectorates about the performance of local public services and the prospects that they will achieve improvement in their local priorities. The participating inspectorates are the Audit Commission, Ofsted, Her Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary and Probation and the Care Quality Commission. The last of these takes over the former work of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission from next month.