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Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA)

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority has been judged as a good authority under the first Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) carried out by the Audit Commission.

What is CPA?

The CPA process was introduced by the Audit Commission in 2002 to assess the performance of councils. In 2005 CPA was introduced for all fire authorities in the country.

The process identifies strengths and areas for improvement and involves the authority initially carrying out its own self assessment followed by a team from the Audit Commission carrying out an on-site assessment of the authority.

The assessment looked at three overall questions and nine themes:

What is the fire authority trying to achieve?
- Leadership and priorities
- A Balanced Strategy

What is the capacity of the fire authority to deliver what it is trying to achieve?
- Capacity: governance and management
- Capacity: resources and value for money
- Capacity: people
- Performance management

What has the fire authority achieved and, in light of that, what does it plan to do next?
- Achievement of objectives
- Achievement of improvement
- Future Plans

The Audit Commission report on the CPA results in an overall judgement of whether each authority is excellent, good, fair, weak or poor.

This report is not an end in itself but provides the opportunity for continuous improvement of the authority and West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority are committed to continuous improvement.

The Audit Commission’s CPA Report on West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority can be found in our publication section along with the web score card.

Further details of the Comprehensive Performance Assessment of fire authorities can be obtained from the Audit Commission website www.audit-commission.gov.uk