Corporate assessment
Council's have a corporate assessment every three years. Liverpool's last one was in October 2007.
The corporate assessment looked at how the council operates and covered four core areas:
- ambition
- prioritisation
- capacity
- performance management.
We were also be judged on how well we have worked with our key partners in health, the police, the voluntary sector and government to deliver improved outcomes for local people.
At the same time as the corporate assessment, the council's services for children and young people, the 'joint area review' took place. This is a statutory inspection of children and young people's services that is separate from comprehensive performance assessment, but is carried out at the same time and its score feeds into the corporate assessment. Visit the joint area review pages for more information.
Further information on the corporate assessment process and how it links in with the joint area review is available on the Audit Commission's corporate assessment page
What were the results of the assessment?
On 19 February 2007 the Audit Commission published our corporate assessment report![(PDF [163Kb] opens in new window)](/images/PDF.gif)
. We received an overall score of 2.
View a summary of the corporate assessment scores - including the rules that govern how overall score is arrived at.
What did we do with the results?
Following the publication of the corporate assessment report the city council has devised an improvement plan called the strategic innovation and improvement plan (SIIP).
Use the links below to see the current versions of the four parts of the plan:
Who carried out the assessment?
The corporate assessment was carried out by a team of inspectors from the Audit Commission. The corporate assessment team, or CAT, is made up of a team leader and inspectors from the Audit Commission and peer reviewers (councillors and officers from other councils).
The members of our corporate assessment team were:
- Ian Davidson - team leader
- Cllr. Robert Light - peer member
- Dr. Eric Fisher - peer officer
- Penny Aspden - team member
- Alex Orme - joint inspector
- Michelle Monaghan - project support officer
When was the assessment carried out?
There was a set-up meeting between the inspectors (including the joint area review inspectors) at the end of July 2007. The council submitted its self-assessment![(MS Word [382.5Kb] opens in new window)](/images/Word.gif)
and the selection of documents that were requested by the Audit Commission. These, along with the analysis week (held 25 - 28 September) were used to inform the on-site visit, that took place 15 - 26 October 2007.
View the full corporate assessment timetable
During the analysis week the team were given a presentation by the council and taken on a tour of the city. View the details of the tour
Useful documents and information
- Guidance (or key lines of enquiry) from the Audit Commission, this shows us how the assessment would be carried out and
- The self-assessment
- We issued a general briefing to staff and members along with a presentation on what the corporate assessment is about, who did what, why it's important etc
- The list of evidence documents (the red numbers) and the pen pictures and case studies listed in the self-assessment - If you want to view any of the documents listed here use the contact details below.
- Liverpool area agreement
- The corporate assessment team's profiles
Contact details
If you would like a hard copy of the self-assessment or any of the documents listed in the evidence document list please contact Louise Oakes on 225 4100 or via email: Louise.Oakes@liverpool.gov.uk