Our Achievements

Our Achievements

Assessment of Performance 

The Comprehensive Area Assessment, or CAA, is the new regime for assessing local public services in England. CAA looks at councils, health bodies, police forces, fire and rescue services and other organisations responsible for local public services, to see how well they are working together to delivering better results for local people and how likely these are to improve in future.
 
North Yorkshire has been awarded a green flag for its achievements in helping older and vulnerable people keep their independence in the Comprehensive Area Assessment published on 9th December 2009. 
 
Green flags are awarded for exceptional performance or outstanding improvement, which makes a real difference to the lives of local people.
 
More details on how partners in North Yorkshire working together to deliver the ten priorities in the Sustainable Community Strategy can be seen in the Area Assessment on the oneplace website. http://oneplace.direct.gov.uk/infobyarea/region/area/Pages/areaoverview.aspx?region=56&area=429
 
Assessments of the partner organisations North Yorkshire are also available on the oneplace website.
 
 

Area Self Evaluation

The North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership (NYSP) partners have worked together to develop this self assessment of our performance. It sets out how well we are doing against our ambitions and targets, how progress will be sustained in the future and how the outstanding challenges will be addressed.
 
 

Good Practice Case Studies

The self evaluation has highlighted a variety of examples of good practice across the county. These examples have been developed into a number of case studies which are listed below.
 
Economic Well-Being
 
Scarborough Renaissance Partnership has won the National Enterprising Town award 2008 (Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) and Most Enterprising Town in Europe 2009 (European Commission Enterprise and Industry Directorate).
 
The case study also covers the identification of economic priorities and NYnet the public and private sector commercial venture providing broadband infrastructure..
 
 
 
Making Safe
 
The Making Safe Scheme is a multi agency initiative that provides positive intervention to incidents of domestic abuse which aims to address the number of repeat victims and repeat offending. The scheme was awarded the Butler Trust Public Protection Award in 2008.
 
 
 
Real Start Apprenticeship Programme
 
The innovative ‘Real Start Apprenticeship Scheme’ has been acknowledged as Best Practice by UNISON and as a national example of good practice by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS).
 
 
 
Adult Community Services Modernisation
 
Adult and Community Services has under taken a radical transformational change programme which has resulted in improved performance and has received national recognition.
 
 
 
Libraries
 
Libraries are becoming central venues for local communities where people can meet, seek advice and enjoy a variety of activities as well as accessing essential resources through the web, archives and books. The role of libraries in supporting the community and supporting community cohesion is increasing. Community cohesion projects have been cited as best practice by the Think Community and the Communities and Local Government Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.  
 
 
 
We will continue to update and add case studies. If you have a good practice example that you would like to share with partners please contact claire.lowery@northyorks.gov.uk (telephone: 01609 565416)
 

Updated Decemeber 2009