ADCS president Maggie Atkinson said the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA), which is due to launch in April 2009, "is going to have to get a lot better than the drafts of it that we've seen so far".
Marion Davis, chair of the ADCS standards, performance and inspection policy committee, added that proposals fail to show how the assessment will reduce the inspections burden on local authorities.
Davis claimed that attempts to assess whole areas would be undermined by plans to retain separate performance frameworks for organisational reviews. "The continuation of children's service inspections as separate processes undermines the concept of an assessment that addresses an area's needs in a comprehensive fashion," she said.
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