Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA)
The Comprehensive Area Assessment, or CAA, is a new way of assessing local public services in England. It examines how well councils are working together with other public bodies to meet the needs of the people they serve. It's a joint assessment made by a group of six independent watchdogs.
To find out the full results of Hackney's assessment, please see the downloads on the right of this page or visit the new, independent Oneplace website
Summary of first Oneplace assessment published for Hackney
Jackie Barry-Purssell, Oneplace spokesperson for Hackney said: ‘Local services in Hackney are working well together and are making real improvements to the quality of people’s lives. Improvements to services are being made in the areas that local people say matter most, such as reducing many types of crime, improving the environment and leisure services and providing better housing. The number of children who die before the age of one has reduced greatly and this is an area that others could learn from. Adult social care is excellent. But tackling child obesity needs to improve. More people in Hackney say that they can influence local decisions, than elsewhere.’
Oneplace provides an independent overview of local public services. It will help people see how well their local services, including councils, police and the NHS, are serving their needs and how well these services are working together to improve an area’s quality of life.
The assessment for Hackney is one of 152 covering all areas of England. These assessments combine the views of six independent inspectorates to create a single snapshot of an area. They look at how important local issues, such as crime, affordable housing and people’s health, are being tackled – and the prospects for improvement.
As well as telling a story about an area, Oneplace sometimes uses green and red flags: green to indicate exceptional performance or improvement that other public services could learn from: red to signal significant concerns about performance and prospects for improvement where more, or something different, needs to be done.
- Hackney has a green flag for: improving infant mortality rates.
- No red flags have been identified for Hackney.
The Oneplace website also includes information on what inspectors and other organisations will do next to help local services tackle their red flag issues.
Alongside the area assessment, the Audit Commission has also published its organisational assessments for councils. These assessments feed into the overall area assessment but focus on the performance and value for money of individual public services, as well as how effectively they work together.
- London Borough of Hackney is judged to perform well.
More detailed assessments of social care, education and police services can be found on the websites of Care Quality Commission, Ofsted and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.
> Oneplace website Hackney pages
Page updated: 9 Dec 2009
