Council Inspections

All Councils are subject to regular inspections by central Government departments.  These help us to:

• Recognise and build on our strengths
• Identify where and how we can improve

Corporate Assessment (CA) is an inspection of all councils, carried out by the Audit Commission.   This inspection was carried out under new arrangements introduced in September 2005 whereby the Corporate Assessment is run simultaneously with a Joint Area Review (JAR), the DfES/Ofsted integrated inspection framework for children's services.

As part of the process we were required to write 'self assessments', where we score ourselves according to themes and questions that we've been given.  The self-assessments for CPA and JAR are published here for information.

•   CPA: Corporate Assessment - October 2006 (pdf 135kb)

•   Joint Area Review: Assessment - October 2006 (pdf 267kb)

•   Youth Services Assessment - October 2006 (pdf 70kb)