Ealing Council has dropped its judicial review challenge of the comprehensive performance assessment after its score was upgraded.
The Audit Commission used its CPA disputed judgement process after Ealing challenged parts of its corporate assessment report, which contributed to its "weak" CPA rating in December.
The corporate assessments examine the council’s performance against nine themes to form a judgement on its capacity to improve.
As a result of the review, Ealing’s achievement score within its corporate assessment has been amended from two to three. This has raised the overall score from "weak" to "fair".
Ealing claimed that the council’s "recent transformation" of children’s social services was further evidence of improvements.
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