The Institute of Sport and Recreation Management
Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA)
Advice and information from the Institute of Sport and Recreation Management
What is Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA)?
According to the Audit Commission, the main objective of CPA is to help councils to deliver better services to local people. CPA is the cornerstone of the government's improvement agenda, set out in the Local Government White Paper (Strong Local Leadership - Quality Public Services). CPA will act as the main means of reviewing the performance of local councils, looking at the quality of services, the use of resources and capacity to improve through an inspection.
ISRM CPA resources
Information
Downloads
- Towards an excellent service (TAES) - Sport England (PDF 932kb)
- Audit Commission: Leisure options appraisals - National Study (PDF 164kb)
- CPA: Sport in the culture block: 2 page information leaflet from Sport England (PDF April 2006)
- Participation and Volunteering. PDF version of Sport England powerpoint presentation (April 2006)
ISRM seminar presentations
Below are a selection of presentations from ISRM's recent seminar "Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA): Performance management, benchmarking and data collection", held Friday 10 February 2006 at Loughborough University.
- Setting the scene for all local authority requirements on the threshold of CPA (Powerpoint, 117K) Roger Pontefract, Strategic Director - Social and Community Services, Sefton MBC and Sport England "Local Government Improvement Manager" (Secondment)
- Improving cultural services - the role of the Cultural Services Improvement Unit (Powerpoint, 500K) Martyn Allison, Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
- Collection of performance data (Powerpoint, 100K) Mike Collins, Visiting Research Fellow, Loughborough and Gloucestershire Universities
- The 'Active People' survey and the accessibility indicator (Powerpoint, 300K) Nick Rowe, Head of Strategy, Research and Planning, Sport England
- The National Benchmarking Service (Powerpoint, 75K) Professor Peter Taylor, Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University