Decision details

This report sets out the Council Plan Monitoring for the fourth quarter of the year. 

Discussion:

The Director of Children and Adults introduced the report, highlighting areas where improvement was required.  She explained that the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee had also referred some areas to this Committee for further investigation that included the cluster of indicators around vulnerable children and the attainment of looked after children and the Committee would need to consider how they wished to look at these issues when considering its work programme.

It was suggested that a lot of the indicators that required improvement were closely linked and could possibly together, relate to a small but very important group of children and young people in Medway.  It was therefore felt there was a need to move away from looking at indicators individually but perhaps scrutinise them with a more holistic approach, with partners, in order to have a positive impact.  In response, the Director offered to help Members with this approach by clustering some of the indicators together at the work programme meeting.

Decision:

The Committee noted the report.