Poole's Performance: Comprehensive Performance Assessment
Audit Commission Inspection Reports
Please use the following link to access our latest Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA score) 
from the Audit Commission website . You can also download our annual inspection report letters from 2003 using the links in the download column to the right of this page.
First introduced in December 2002, Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) is the Government's annual evaluation of the quality of services provided by local government.
All Authorities are now assessed under 'The Harder Test' and are scored through star ratings 4 being the highest and 0 the lowest.
The key elements of the framework are:
Poole's Corporate Assessment
The direction of travel, use of resources and service assessments elements are refreshed annually, the frequency of the corporate assessment is dependant on our overall performance.
The Corporate Assessment looks at how well the Council manages the business. Poole's last assessment was in December 2007 and we scored 3 out of 4. This was determined through a rigorous inspection process. In preparation for this we wrote a Self Assessment. The final report can be viewed on the Audit Commission website.
Use the following link to view the 2007 Corporate Assessment .
Poole's Annual CPA Judgement
In 2007 we were assessed as a Council that is improving well and demonstrating a 4 star overall performance. The six service areas assessed are:
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