Ooh, Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). Somebody tie me down. Look, I know it may not compare with the excitement of finally making a real breakthrough with a 16-year-old lad who's been nursing a grievance against the world, but sooner or later it will be occupying the minds of youth work managers and policymakers.
Explain then. Well, as you'll remember, CPA is a "performance management framework" introduced in December 2001. Building on Best Value, it involves the Audit Commission drawing together existing audits, inspections and assessments and collecting other new information to deliver a wide-ranging assessment of councils' performance. Councils then receive a grading that labels them excellent, good, fair, weak or poor.
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