St Albans City & District Council has been described as “continuing to provide good quality services which matter most to its local residents”, in a recent Audit Commission inspection of how the Council operates.The Council has been rated as ‘performs well’ on managing its performance.

The report highlights successes such as increasing recycling and reducing litter, providing discounted leisure facilities and health schemes for people with particular needs, local arts and culture events such as St Albans Festival, and helping local people during the recession to find jobs and to get advice with problems such as debt.The organisational assessment is part of the new Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) process, which focuses on how well councils, the police, NHS and others are working together to serve local people and tackle priority issues. This assessment of the Council feeds into an overall area assessment for Hertfordshire.