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 2 star overall performance.
We reached this overall rating by looking at:
- What progress North East Lincolnshire Council has made in the last year – direction of travel
- How North East Lincolnshire Council manages its finances and provides value for money – use of resources
- How North East Lincolnshire Council's main services perform – service performance
- How North East Lincolnshire 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 North East Lincolnshire 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. | not improving adequately | improving well | improving well | improving adequately |
The following summary has been provided to support the 2008 direction of travel assessment:
North East Lincolnshire Council is improving adequately. Performance continues to improve, but not consistently across all priority areas and at a slower rate than others. Children’s services have improved significantly with fewer numbers of looked-after children and more young people undertaking work based learning. Joint working with the police has led to a reduction in crime, but it remains high in some areas. Regeneration has created jobs locally but not at the rate desired and the Council recognises the need for North East Lincolnshire to become more attractive to potential investors. The Council is performing poorly in supporting the housing related needs of the most vulnerable people in the area. Performance on recycling and waste collected is falling behind others. Teenage conceptions remain high with a much slower relative rate of improvement. Use of resources has deteriorated and value for money remains adequate. The Council values partnerships and has embarked on innovative new arrangements with health colleagues. The Council has redefined its strategic aims to focus improvement effort on known community priorities. The newly implemented management structure aims to support the Council’s drive for faster, targeted improvement.
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Use of resources
How North East Lincolnshire 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. |
1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
This use of resources judgement is drawn from five individual judgements provided by the Council's appointed auditor:
| Auditor judgements | 2008 |
|---|
| Financial reporting | 1 |
| Financial management | 3 |
| Financial standing | 2 |
| Internal control | 2 |
| Value for money | 2 |
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Service performance
How North East Lincolnshire 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 | 4 | 4 |
| 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. |
1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Culture - The Council's performance in services, such as libraries and leisure, as assessed by the Audit Commission. More details |
2 | 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 | 3 | 3 |
| Housing - The Council's performance in community housing and, where applicable, housing management services, as assessed by the Audit Commission. More details |
1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 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 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
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Corporate assessment
How North East Lincolnshire 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. |
2 |
Corporate assessment reports
View corporate assessment - 2007 score 2
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.