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Council Plan Performance Indicators 2015/2016 Refresh

 

 

Meeting: 26/02/2015 - Council (Item 793)

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This report provides details of the outcome of a review to ensure the delivery of the Council Plan is assessed using a focused and informative set of indicators to cover the period 2015-16 that take account of recent financial and service developments.

Minutes:

Discussion:

 

This report provided details of the Council Plan which was the organisation’s overarching business plan, setting out the Council’s commitments to achieving certain outcomes during the life of the Plan. Following feedback from Members and officers, it was proposed that the current plan would be extended into 2015-16. Moving forward it was the intention to develop a new medium term strategic plan in 2015-16 to replace the extended 2013-15 version.

 

The Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Cabinet considered this report on 3 February 2015 and 10 February 2015 respectively and their comments were set out in paragraphs 6 and 7 of the report.

 

A Diversity Impact Assessment of the refreshed Council Plan indicators had been prepared with the report, in line with the Council’s established procedure for new strategic documents, as set out in Appendix 5 to the report. This had not identified any adverse impact on residents with protected characteristics based on the proposed changes to Council Plans key projects and indicator suite.

 

The Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Finance, Councillor Jarrett, supported by the Leader of the Council, Councillor Rodney Chambers OBE, proposed the recommendations set out in the report.

 

Decision:

 

(a)         The Council agreed the revised Council Plan 2014-2015 Indicators (Appendix 1 to the report) and the Target Profile document (Appendix 2 to the report.

 

(b)         The Council agreed to delegate to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Finance, authority to deal with any necessary changes to align the Plan to the agreed budget, including any updates required to the Council Plan document.

Meeting: 10/02/2015 - Cabinet (Item 8)

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

Background:

 

This report provided details of the proposal to extend the current Council Plan by one further year to 2015/2016.

 

The purpose of this review was to ensure the delivery of the Council Plan was assessed using a focused and informative set of indicators to cover the period 2015-16 that take account of recent financial and service developments. It was noted that Directorates had reviewed their respective indicators and key projects and had been adjusted as necessary.

 

The Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee had considered this report on 3 February 2015 and its comments were set out in an addendum report (Supplementary Agenda No.2).

 

A Diversity Impact Assessment of the refreshed Council Plan indicators had been prepared with the report, in line with the Council’s established procedure for new strategic documents, as set out in Appendix 5 to the report. This had not identified any adverse impact on residents with protected characteristics based on the proposed changes to Council Plans key projects and indicator suite.

 

Decision number:

Decision:

 

The Cabinet noted the comments of the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the Council Plan Indicators for 2015-16 (Appendix 1) and Key Projects for 2015-16  (Appendix 2).

26/2015

The Cabinet accepted the specific recommendations by the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee and recommended these to Full Council accordingly:

(i)                 “Carer satisfaction with adult social care services” – retain target at its current level of 46%.

(ii)               “The proportion of carers who felt that they had been included or consulted in discussions about the person they care for” – retain target at its current level of 75%.

27/2015

The Cabinet accepted the specific recommendation by officers in response to comments of the Business Support Overview & Scrutiny Committee to amend the indicator:

“Percentage of children who were absent from school for more than 15 percent of the school year” to be replaced with:

“the percentage of children who were persistently absent from school” and the target be changed to “TBC” and recommended this to Full Council accordingly.

 

The Cabinet noted that Members of the the Business Support Overview & Scrutiny Committee agreed with the overall proposals and felt it compared favourably with previous versions of the Council Plan scrutinised by the Committee.

28/2015

The Cabinet recommended the revised Council Plan 2015-2016 Indicators (Appendix 1 to the report) and the Target Profile document (Appendix 2 to the report), to Full Council for approval.

29/2015

The Cabinet recommended to Full Council to delegate to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Finance, authority to deal with any necessary changes to align the Plan to the agreed budget, including any updates required to the Council Plan document.

 

Reasons:

 

The selection of relevant and focused indicators will enable the organisation to demonstrate how it is using resources to meet locally specific objectives