How is CAA different from CPA?
CPA focused on the performance of your council and fire and rescue authority. CAA is about all local services where you live. CPA was interested in how councils and fire and rescue authorities performed. CAA takes a much wider look across local public services, including PCTs, police and probation bodies. CAA also focuses on how well people are being served by their local public services working together, not just how individual bodies perform. CAA is about areas as much as organisations, future rather than past performance, outcomes rather than ways of working, and local priorities as much as national targets. Its span is broader than CPA and what individual inspectorates had been assessing. It is an assessment of those things that contribute to quality of life in an area, including the quality of healthcare, levels of affordable housing, crime and fear of crime, educational achievement, attracting investment or an area’s carbon footprint. These issues are neither the preserve of any
