How is CAA different from what the service inspectorates have been doing?
CAA will reduce the administration on public services. It means that some inspections will cease while others will change and be incorporated into CAA. Children’s Services Joint Area Reviews now cease, and CPA, including the programme of corporate assessments of councils, is ending. But health and policing services continue to be assessed by their respective inspectorates; while Ofsted inspections (including early years’ settings, schools, colleges, adult learning, children’s homes, fostering and adoption services) and, from April 2009, CQC (for social care and residential care homes) will continue to check that they meet required standards.
