Rob Ayliffe

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Comprehensive Area Assessment
Rob Ayliffe Gloucestershire County Council
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Overview

• What is Comprehensive Area Assessment?
• What are we doing to prepare?
• Questions discussion

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CAA Headlines

• Single assessment of outcomes for local people
  in Gloucestershire
• Will reflect our Sustainable Community Strategies
  Local Area Agreement
• Red green flags will highlight key areas of
  exceptional practice and concerns
• Organisational Assessments for councils, PCT,
  police and Fire Rescue
• Inspections for vulnerable adults and children
  will continue

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The CAA framework
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Whats new

• Outcome-focussed
• Partnership based
• More co-ordination between inspectorates
• Continuous assessment, not an annual event
• Public reporting

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What will CAA ask?

• How well do local priorities express community
  needs and aspirations
• How well are the outcomes and improvements needed
  being delivered?
• What are the prospects for future improvement?
• Focus on priority outcomes from the LAA SCS
• Drills down into districts, parishes and
  neighbourhoods

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Outcome focus

• How safe is this area?
• How healthy and well-supported are people?
• How well kept is the area?
• How environmentally sustainable is the area?
• How strong is the local economy?
• How strong and cohesive are local communities?
• How well is inequality being addressed?
• How well is housing need met?
• How well are families supported?
• How good is the well-being of children and young
  people?

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Sources of evidence

• Performance and other reporting (including
  National Indicators)
• Ongoing data gathering, co-ordinated by CAA Lead
  (Mel Watson)
• Conversations with partners including 3rd sector
• Direct engagement with public

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CAA reporting

• Area and Organisational Assessments published in
  November
• Ongoing dialogue with Gloucestershire Conference
  as report is developed
• Reporting to citizens using web
• Red flags highlight concerns
• Green flags highlight exceptional practice
• Scores for Organisational Assessment (rated 1-4)

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The website
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Red Green Flags

• Green flags reserved for performance that is
  exceptional, sustainable and repeatable
• Red flags will be used to highlight concerns
  where nothing or not enough is being done
• Will be reviewed regularly, but updated annually
  for reporting purposes

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How well prepared is Gloucestershire?

• Strong partnership arrangements
• Clear Sustainable Community Strategies
• Robust LAA that aligns to SCSs
• Strong overall performance
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• Mixed capacity across partners
• Inequalities and pockets of disadvantage
• CAA wont make any special allowances for the
  difficulties of 2-tier working
• Can we provide evidence of outcomes?

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What are we doing?

• Work has begun on self-evaluation
• Strengthening performance management of the
  National Indicator Set
• Programme of peer reviews across local
  authorities
• Regular conversation between CSEB and Mel Watson
  (our CAA lead)

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Discussion

• What else do you need to know?
• What do you think will be the key risk areas for
  Gloucestershire?
• Where do you think we have exceptional practice
  to share?