The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) provides an assessment of how well local public services are serving communities in three sentences or less:
It evaluates outcomes for local residents by assessing how public services work together to address local priorities, the prospects for improvement, and sustainability, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups. CAA ratings from green to red will indicate levels of improvement and performance. The assessment considers various evidence sources and is a joint effort of inspectorates to provide transparent public reporting on local service delivery.
Incentivising good performance - Miguel Castro Coelho, PortugalOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Miguel Castro Coelho, Portugal, at the 12th Annual Meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD, Paris, on 24-25 November 2016
Update on OECD performance budgeting survey 2016 - Ronnie Downes, OECD Secret...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ronnie Downes, OECD Secretariat, at the 12th Annual Meeting of OECD-CESEE Senior Budget Officials held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 28-29 June 2016
Wilson Prichard, University of Toronto and International Centre for Tax and Development; Samuel Jibao, Centre for Economic Research and Capacity Building, Sierra Leone; and Nicolas Orgeira, International Centre for Tax and Development
Aligning the centre and line ministries - Mark Bussow, United StatesOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Mark Bussow, United States, at the 12th Annual Meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD, Paris, on 24-25 November 2016
Incentivising good performance - Miguel Castro Coelho, PortugalOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Miguel Castro Coelho, Portugal, at the 12th Annual Meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD, Paris, on 24-25 November 2016
Update on OECD performance budgeting survey 2016 - Ronnie Downes, OECD Secret...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ronnie Downes, OECD Secretariat, at the 12th Annual Meeting of OECD-CESEE Senior Budget Officials held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 28-29 June 2016
Wilson Prichard, University of Toronto and International Centre for Tax and Development; Samuel Jibao, Centre for Economic Research and Capacity Building, Sierra Leone; and Nicolas Orgeira, International Centre for Tax and Development
Aligning the centre and line ministries - Mark Bussow, United StatesOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Mark Bussow, United States, at the 12th Annual Meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD, Paris, on 24-25 November 2016
Policy frameworks and municipal effectivenessJohn Leonardo
Municipalities need to employ an effective policy framework to keep service delivery on track. Local government politicians like to make promises about service delivery initiatives to their communities. Municipalities, however, often fail to deliver these promised services for a range of reasons including poor budgeting and ineffective management. This is why municipalities need to not only maintain effective policy frameworks but ensure these are reviewed and updated regularly.
The New Zealand Productivity Commission is conducting an inquiry into local government regulation. It has released a draft report for consultation and submissions are due by 6 March 2013. This overview of the key issues was presentted to Local Government New Zealand in February 2013. For more information: www.productivity.govt.nz/inquiry-content/local-government.
Evaluating stakeholder engagement: Practices in OECD countries, Laura Seiffer...OECD Governance
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Evaluating stakeholder engagement in regulatory policy, Christiane ArndtOECD Governance
Presentation by Christiane Arndt, Programme Co-ordinator Measuring Regulatory Performance, OECD, at the 6th Expert Meeting on Measuring Regulatory Performance: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy, Introduction, The Hague, 16-18 June 2014. Further information is available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/
Processes and institutions for effective ex post evaluationOECD Governance
Presentation by Ronnie Downes and Christine Arndt, OECD, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Delivering on results - Evidence-based decision making through better metrics...OECD Governance
Presentation by Kiran Hanspal, Canada, at the 11th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials Performance and Results network, Paris, 26-27 November 2015.
Presentation by Inchul Shin on 'Performance Management System for Civil Serva...OECD Governance
This presentation by Inchul Shin of the OECD, was made at the Public Employment and Management Expert meeting on "Senior Civil Service: Performance, Accountability and Organisational Success" on 27 November 2015. For further information, please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/.
Implementing the One-for-One Rule: Background, Mechanics, Results and Lessons OECD Governance
Presentation by Jeannine Ritchot, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Challenges of policy implementation in public organizations.pptNGO SAPNA
Implementation of public policy is a real challenge. It needs systematic thinking, careful planning, close monitoring and effective performance evaluation.
Presentation by Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization, Portugal, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Processes and Institutions for Effective ex post EvaluationOECD Governance
Presentation by Nick Malyshev, Regulatory Policy Division, OECD, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Administrative burdens created by the national transposition of EU legislationOECD Governance
Presentation by Professor Licínio Lopes Martins, Center for Studies in Public Law and Regulation, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Accountability and Compliance in EURO - presentation delivered by Imre Hollo, Director, Administration and Finance, on 14 September 2015 at the 65th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (Vilnius, Lithuania, 14–17 September 2015)
Policy frameworks and municipal effectivenessJohn Leonardo
Municipalities need to employ an effective policy framework to keep service delivery on track. Local government politicians like to make promises about service delivery initiatives to their communities. Municipalities, however, often fail to deliver these promised services for a range of reasons including poor budgeting and ineffective management. This is why municipalities need to not only maintain effective policy frameworks but ensure these are reviewed and updated regularly.
The New Zealand Productivity Commission is conducting an inquiry into local government regulation. It has released a draft report for consultation and submissions are due by 6 March 2013. This overview of the key issues was presentted to Local Government New Zealand in February 2013. For more information: www.productivity.govt.nz/inquiry-content/local-government.
Evaluating stakeholder engagement: Practices in OECD countries, Laura Seiffer...OECD Governance
Presentation by Laura Seiffert, Junior Policy Analyst, and Daniel Trnka, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD, at the 6th Expert Meeting on Measuring Regulatory Performance: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy, Breakout Session 1, The Hague, 16-18 June 2014. Further information is available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/
Evaluating stakeholder engagement in regulatory policy, Christiane ArndtOECD Governance
Presentation by Christiane Arndt, Programme Co-ordinator Measuring Regulatory Performance, OECD, at the 6th Expert Meeting on Measuring Regulatory Performance: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy, Introduction, The Hague, 16-18 June 2014. Further information is available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/
Processes and institutions for effective ex post evaluationOECD Governance
Presentation by Ronnie Downes and Christine Arndt, OECD, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Delivering on results - Evidence-based decision making through better metrics...OECD Governance
Presentation by Kiran Hanspal, Canada, at the 11th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials Performance and Results network, Paris, 26-27 November 2015.
Presentation by Inchul Shin on 'Performance Management System for Civil Serva...OECD Governance
This presentation by Inchul Shin of the OECD, was made at the Public Employment and Management Expert meeting on "Senior Civil Service: Performance, Accountability and Organisational Success" on 27 November 2015. For further information, please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/.
Implementing the One-for-One Rule: Background, Mechanics, Results and Lessons OECD Governance
Presentation by Jeannine Ritchot, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Challenges of policy implementation in public organizations.pptNGO SAPNA
Implementation of public policy is a real challenge. It needs systematic thinking, careful planning, close monitoring and effective performance evaluation.
Presentation by Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernization, Portugal, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Processes and Institutions for Effective ex post EvaluationOECD Governance
Presentation by Nick Malyshev, Regulatory Policy Division, OECD, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Administrative burdens created by the national transposition of EU legislationOECD Governance
Presentation by Professor Licínio Lopes Martins, Center for Studies in Public Law and Regulation, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, at the 9th Conference on Measuring Regulatory Performance - Closing the Regulatory Cycle: Effective ex post Evaluation for Improved Policy Outcomes which took place in Lisbon on 20-21 June 2017. Further information is available at www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/measuring-regulatory-performance.htm.
Accountability and Compliance in EURO - presentation delivered by Imre Hollo, Director, Administration and Finance, on 14 September 2015 at the 65th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (Vilnius, Lithuania, 14–17 September 2015)
Presentación del Taller de creación de documentos ePub, impartido en el Plan de Formación Docente del Profesorado 2016 de la Universidad de Salamanca. Se introducen aspectos sobre el libro electrónico y edición digital. Se describe cómo trabajar con Sigil como editor de documentos ePub y con Calibre como conversor de formatos digitales.
Discussion of the myth and the reality of the Cossacks as people and as soldiers. Their reputation of fierce fighters trained from a young age in horsemanship and how to use weapons. Trained by experienced warriors how to use these skilled in combat practices. Their special role in the Tsars Army as light calvary. Their wartime reputation as a tremendous fighting force from their enemies Napoleon and the Ottoman Turks. Their control of autonomous Cossack Communities and their anti Jewish view point and their role in the Programs against Jews in Russia..
Slides from the 2015 User Experience (UX) & User Interface (UI) Exchange. The event included a variety of presentations and hands-on activities, in addition to networking opportunities with other industry professionals, all focused on user experience, user interface / visual design, icon design, interaction design, information architecture, and usability research. Co-Hosted by Esri (www.esri.com) and San Diego Experience Design group (www.meetup.com/s-d-x-d/)
For more details, visit: http://esriurl.com/uxuiexchange2015
Overview of why geography is a critical dimension in the analysis and reporting of performance data in performance management systems. Includes lots of examples where InstantAtlas has been applied to this area.
This is a project which encourages students to focus on what they need to do to pass their exams well. They will work in a small group to create a revision lesson which incorporates 3 activities for the class to do. The activities must be based on Costa's 3 levels of thinking.
The meaning of “open source”; key issues common to most open source licenses; overview of the major open source licenses and and their impact in a corporate environment; potential risks associated with noncompliance
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Canadian Best Practices in Measuring Efficiency,Effectiveness and Performance of the Public Sector
D. Brian Marson
APO International Advisor
Colombo, June 2015
OECD Best Practices for Performance budgeting - Ivor Beazley, OECDOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ivor Beazley, OECD, at the 13th Annual meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD Headquarters on 16-17 November 2017
Performance budgeting in the OECD: Highlights from the OECD 2011/2012 PB surv...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Lisa Von Trapp, OECD, at the 10th OECD-Asian Senior Budget Officials Annual Meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 18-19 December 2014.
This PPT delivered in a conference organised by Administrative Staff College of India discusses what needs to be done to improve municipal finances in India.
Best practices for performance budgeting - Ivor BEAZLEY, OECDOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ivor BEAZLEY, OECD at the 13th Annual Meeting of OECD-Asian Senior Budget Officials held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 14-15 December 2017
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This presentation was made by Ivor Beazley, the World Bank, at the 12th Annual Meeting on Performance and Results held at the OECD, Paris, on 24-25 November 2016
With the Obama Adminstration emphasizing accountability and performance associated with the economic stimulus package, here is a primer on the basics of government performance and results that can be applied to any level of government services and programs.
Measuring social value and impact in asset transfer: Tony Rich, Birmingham Ma...podnosh
Tony Rich presents on Valuing worth - the system developed by Birmingham City Council for calculating the value of community effort as part of a Community Asset Transfer.
He was speaking in Birmingham on March 23rd 2010 which was part of the learning from the Birmingham City Council Community Asset Transfer development Programme funded by AWM, which began in January 2009 and ran through until March 2010.
see
http://www.communityassettransfer.com
Local Investment Planning - a view of the future (Simon Nunn, Assistant Dire...South West Observatory
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John Betty, Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Strategic Director, spoke about how Local Investment Plans have been used to support the HCA’s work with his team, with a particular focus on Bath Riverside (a LIP priority for the West of England). This was part of the Homes and Communities Agency and the National Housing Federation held an event, Learning the Lessons from the Local Investment Plans
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This resource, compiled by Creating Excellence, contains case studies, tips, tools and contact details about localism in action. Includes:
> Participatory Budgeting
> Community Assets
> Community Led Planning
> Communities Taking the Lead.
http://www.creatingexcellence.org.uk/ceimages/Localism%20in%20Action%20Final.pdf
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Economics Demystified: What Can We Learn about the South West Economy from Re...South West Observatory
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
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The introduction of Comprehensive Area Assessment – CAA – is a landmark in the development of independent assessment of public services. Irrespective of where you live or who you work for in local public services, CAA is relevant to you. From the councillor keen to know how well constituents are being served by their public services; the chief executive who wants to understand how effectively local priorities are being tackled – and who is doing better; to the man or woman on the street, curious about how their public services are delivering. All of these individuals will find the information they need through CAA.
CAA is a radical departure from the past: 1. Its key focus is on the outcomes being achieved by local public services for their communities. CAA looks at results rather than examining structures and processes. We want to know whether services are making a difference; and are they helping improve people’s lives? 2. It doesn’t limit its focus to one organisation, but instead looks at how successfully local public services are working together to achieve improvements for local people 3. It isn’t top-down, but places the issues that residents say matter to them at the centre of the assessment process. 4. CAA will ensure that public services undergo robust and proportionate assessment. It has been designed to reduce the administrative burden on councils and other bodies, by relying more on existing national and local data. There won’t be a rolling programme of regular inspection, but inspection will continue for services for children in care or in vulnerable circumstances. 5. We will report the results of CAA in language that the public will understand through a dedicated website which will be launched at the end of year at www.oneplace.directgov.uk We mustn’t underestimate the challenge this poses to us all: inspectors and public services alike. It requires a major cultural shift – new ways of working together for inspectorates, and a whole new approach to assessment by local services.
Assessments up until now, such as CPA in councils, have promoted the delivery of better services, better value for money, and an increased accountability for the use of public money. So why the need for CAA? If local services are to respond to the priorities of local communities, public services need to work together. The introduction of Local Area Agreements and Sustainable Community Strategies reflects the fact that different areas face different challenges, and that these can only be tackled by public services working together. In this environment assessment has to follow suit. And joined-up delivery requires joined-up working across all of the local inspectorates: the Audit Commission, the Care Quality Commission, the inspectorates of constabulary, prisons and probation, and Ofsted. In this joined-up environment we can no longer focus on individual organisations or on processes. We need to assess the outcomes achieved collectively for local communities. And, rightly, we need to ensure that we are assessing what matters most to local people, not just national priorities. Increasingly local services are being given the freedom to deliver more responsive and personalised services - services that are built around the needs of individuals, families and communities, not around institutional boundaries. CAA has been developed to reflect these changes. But underpinning all of this is the need to continue the drive for improvement in our public services, along with providing public assurance that public bodies are providing value for money, especially in the current climate.
This diagram sets out the two main elements of CAA and how they are interrelated and supported by a common pool of evidence. The central element is the area assessment which feeds into, and is fed by, the organisational assessments that local public services undergo. In the area assessment the inspectorates judge together how well local public services are meeting the priorities that have been set locally and in particular how likely they are to improve in the future. The organisational assessments for councils, combines the external auditor’s assessment of value for money in the use of resources with an assessment of how well they manage performance. The organisational assessment for other main public bodies in each area reflects the frameworks for NHS organisations, police authorities and forces, and fire and rescue authorities. Each includes the external auditor’s assessment of value for money. It will be the first time we have consistent value for money judgments across sectors. Both the area assessment and organisational assessment are informed by the data that is available in the new National Indicator Set, the information produced by councils and other local organisations to monitor their own performance and the views of service users and local people. This interrelated approach aims to help minimise the work local services need to do to respond to the assessment. I’ll explain a little more about each element of the assessment in turn.
The unique element of CAA is the area assessment. For the first time, the inspectorates are pooling their information and understanding to look at outcomes in each area, regardless of organisational boundaries and responsibilities. We are using this broad approach to assess the future prospects in an area for achieving better outcomes, by examining the impact that local service organisations are collectively having on improving priority outcomes. The assessment looks forward, using the available evidence – at what the prospects for improvement will be. This is achieved by answering three questions, with the first two leading to the third, and most relevant, judgement: How effectively priorities express the community needs and aspirations: how well local services understand their communities; A judgement on how effectively local services are tackling these community needs; and finally A judgement on the prospects that outcomes will continue to improve Underpinning these questions will be assessments of sustainability, impact on inequality and on those whose circumstances make them vulnerable, and of course value for money. There will be no ‘scored’ judgement or overall classification of area assessments. We will use “green flags” to reflect exceptional performance or outstanding improvement, resulting in sustainably better outcomes, and from which others can learn. We will use “red flags” where we have significant concerns about outcomes and future prospects, where more needs to be done.
As local bodies are assessed by different inspectorates, reflecting the context and organisation of each service sector, this will continue to be true under CAA. The form of organisational assessments therefore varies and these are set out in the relevant performance frameworks for each sector: Ofsted with children and young people’s services; CQC with health. Both have recently published their plans for how they will assess their specific areas alongside CAA; joined-up assessment is becoming much more of a reality under CAA. Each organisational assessment feeds into the area assessment and will take into account a Value for Money assessment. In addition, each inspectorate is focusing on how effectively the local body is contributing to the shared priorities for the area.
A central objective of the new assessment system is to minimise any additional administration on assessed bodies. Throughout the development of the framework a key principle has been to use locally produced data sources to assess performance, and to use the COUNT principle (collect once, use numerous times) across the inspectorates involved in CAA. We are using the 188 national indicators in the new National Indicator Set, where this information is available. We are also using information from a variety of other sources. Audit and inspection evidence, information from government offices and other partners, and feedback from service users, the local community and those in the voluntary and business sectors. This information is being assessed over the summer by the local inspectors, coordinated by the CAA lead at the Audit Commission.
A key objective is to report the results of CAA to the public. We will report annually, using a dedicated new oneplace website. This aims to be the ‘one place’ where local people can visit to find out about their local public services, and how these match up to other areas. We will also report in appropriate ways to other audiences such as ministers and government. While the website will be the main reporting mechanism, we will be working with local services themselves as well as national voluntary groups to ensure that the results of our assessments are accessible to as many local people as possible – including those who do not have access to the internet. The reporting process also means that the website will enable those with a more professional interest in the results to find out greater detail about the assessments, and to identify good practice across England. With local partnerships, however, we will make sure that there are no surprises – and will be reporting regularly to LSPs on our emerging findings, and on those areas where we have concerns (and may eventually place red flags) But CAA will evolve over time. In future years there will be more information that we can use, and a greater interactivity to offer both the public and those involved in delivering public services.