Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) scorecard 2008
You are currently viewing a Comprehensive Performance Assessment made under the 2008 methodology. View the most recent Comprehensive Area Assessment.
Overall performance for this Council
This is a council that is improving adequately and demonstrating a 3 star overall performance.
We reached this overall rating by looking at:
- What progress Newham London Borough Council has made in the last year – direction of travel
- How Newham London Borough Council manages its finances and provides value for money – use of resources
- How Newham London Borough Council's main services perform – service performance
- How Newham London Borough Council is run – corporate assessment
Service assessments, use of resources and corporate assessments are scored on the Local Services Inspectorate Forum scale:
1 = Inadequate performance – below minimum requirements
2 = Adequate performance – only at minimum requirements
3 = Performing well – consistently above minimum requirements
4 = Performing strongly – well above minimum requirements
Direction of travel
The progress Newham London Borough Council has made in the last year
| Direction of travel |
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|
| This assessment indicates the progress being made, or otherwise, to achieve improvement. | improving well | improving well | improving adequately | improving adequately |
The following summary has been provided to support the 2008 direction of travel assessment:
Newham Council is improving adequately. Performance is improving in priority areas like crime reduction and social care services for adults. The Council has worked well with partners to create jobs and work placement opportunities particularly for vulnerable groups. However, performance for street cleanliness and recycling remains comparatively poor, although improving. Benefits services are also only adequate. Services for children and young people, on the other hand, remain good. The rate at which Newham’s key performance indicators are improving is in line with the national average, although the number of indicators in the best quartile is some way below the national average. Although residents' satisfaction with quality of services has remained the same since 2006, the Council is building on its understanding of the borough's diverse and changing communities in order to better meet their needs. The Council is achieving value for money and has invested in its capacity to deliver improvements. Its newly established senior management team and rigorous approach to improvement planning are already impacting positively on service performance. However, Newham continues to struggle to meet the decent homes standard.
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Use of resources
How Newham London Borough Council manages its finances and provides value for money
| Use of resources |
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|
| We have assessed how well the Council manages its finances and provides value for money. |
3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
This use of resources judgement is drawn from five individual judgements provided by the Council's appointed auditor:
| Auditor judgements | 2008 |
|---|
| Financial reporting | 3 |
| Financial management | 3 |
| Financial standing | 4 |
| Internal control | 4 |
| Value for money | 3 |
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Service performance
How Newham London Borough Council's main services perform
| Service area |
2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|
| Benefits - The Council's performance in providing housing and council tax benefit services as assessed by the Department for Work and Pensions (external link) and is based primarily on achievement against the 2005 housing benefits/council tax benefits performance standards. More details |
3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Children and young people - The Council's performance in providing children's services, such as children's education and social care. The joint assessment is made by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (external link) and Ofsted (external link) following a review of the Council's overall performance and key indicators. |
3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Culture - The Council's performance in services, such as libraries and leisure, as assessed by the Audit Commission. More details |
3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Environment - The Council's performance in services, such as transport, planning and waste, as assessed by the Audit Commission. More details |
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Housing - The Council's performance in community housing and, where applicable, housing management services, as assessed by the Audit Commission. More details |
2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Social care (adults) - The Council's performance in adult social care services. The assessment is made by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (external link) following a review of the Council's overall performance and key indicators. |
2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
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Corporate assessment
How Newham London Borough Council is run
| Corporate assessment |
2005-2008 |
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In assessing how the Council is run, the Commission considers what the Council, together with its partners, is trying to achieve; what the capacity of the Council, including its work with partners, is to deliver what it is trying to achieve; and what has been achieved?
Under CPA - The Harder Test, corporate assessments were undertaken once for each single tier and county council between 2005 and 2008. |
3 |
Corporate assessment reports
View corporate assessment - 2006 score 3
Joint Area Review (JAR) of children's services report
This assessment is conducted in partnership with the new-style corporate assessment and is published on the Ofsted website (external link).
Percentage figures may not total 100 per cent due to rounding.