Comprehensive Performance Assessment

The scoring system for councils, called the Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA), takes an overall look at how well each council provides services and its ability to improve. The result is a scorecard that rates each council as excellent, good, fair, weak or poor.

The CPA score is important because it forms the basis for how a council is treated by government by providing freedoms and flexibilities, to improve services and make more decisions without Government intervention. The CPA assessment is undertaken by the Audit Commission