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Comprehensive Performance Assessment 2004
The Council has been rated as Excellent by the Audit Commission in the Comprehensive Performance Assessment for 2004. This is an improvement on the ‘Good’ rating in 2003. The result was announced on 16th December 2004.
There are two elements in the assessment:
- A rating of the Council’s service performance; and
- A rating of how well the Council is run (‘corporate ability’)
Service Performance
The Council’s service performance was assessed as good overall. Over the last two years ratings on children’s social care, libraries and leisure, environment, and use of resources have all improved. In the last year the environment rating has moved from poor to good, reflecting substantial improvements, particularly in waste management and planning. The Council is rated as excellent on its use of resources.
Corporate ability
The way the Council is run is assessed as excellent following an Audit Commission inspection in November 2004. Of the nine factors assessed, the Council was rated excellent on seven factors and good on two.
Among the points highlighted by the Audit Commission:
- “Sheffield City Council is a strong organisation. It has continued to build on the many strengths identified in its previous corporate assessment and has addressed most of the weaknesses”.
- “It is a well managed Council that has a strong learning and performance management driven culture”.
- “It has clear, well defined ambitions which are based on the needs of local communities, balances local and national priorities well and has strong financial, risk and asset management”.
- “It has remained focused on delivering its ambition and has a positive improvement trend both in most service areas and in cross cutting issues such as tackling crime and unemployment”.
- “ It is very strong at partnership working which contributes to its robust ambitions for Sheffield which are supported and shared by partners”.
- “Sheffield has areas where it needs to improve but is self-aware and is putting things into place to address its areas for improvement. It has the capacity to continue to improve”.
Downloads
A summary of the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessment scoresheet, this shows how the overall score was reached by providing the scores for every service area
(76.8 KB)
The Audit Commission's full Comprehensive Performance Assessment report 2004 (123 KB)
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