Audits of Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs)
Audit Scotland undertook a performance audit to assess the effectiveness of community planning in 2011. The audit focused on economic development and assessed the impact of community planning in delivering improved outcomes. The report was published in November 2011.
As a result of the review of Community Planning held in early 2012, the Scottish Government asked the Accounts Commission to lead work on how external audit and inspection might hold CPPs to account for their performance and help them to deliver better outcomes.
Aberdeen, North Ayrshire, and the Scottish Borders CPPs agreed to participate in three early audits to help the Accounts Commission and the Auditor General for Scotland test the CPP audit framework. For the first time, these audits focus on the impact and effectiveness of individual CPPs, rather than community planning as a national process.
The reports were published in March 2013 along with an overview report on Improving Community Planning in Scotland.
Further CPP audits were conducted throughout 2014 in Glasgow, Falkirk , Moray West Lothian and Orkney Islands. The assessment of local progress in the 2014 CPP audits and follow up work on the 3 CPPs audited in 2013 contributed to the assessment of progress contained in the national update community planning: turning ambition into action published in November 2014.