Issue - meetings

Background:

This report summarised the performance of the Council’s Key Measures of Success for the third quarter of 2016/17 as set out in the Council Plan 2016/17-2020/21.

The report and accompanying appendix included progress reports on performance in Quarter 3 2016/17 against these priorities using 32 Key measures of success, however, this report was only including information on 25 as 7 of these were either data only, or data was not expected until after the report was published. In summary:

•           68%   (17 out of 25) were on target

•           4%     (1 out of 25) were just below target

•           28%   (7 out of 25) were significantly below target

•           54%   (13 out of 24) have improved over the long term.

It was noted that the report would be considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees during March and April.

Cabinet Members highlighted a number of key issues during discussion.

Reasons:

Regular monitoring of performance by management and Members is best practice and ensures achievement of corporate objectives.