Issue - meetings

Background:

This report summarised the performance of the Council’s Measures of Success for July-September (quarter 2) 2017/18 as set out in the Council Plan.

The report and accompanying appendix included progress reports on performance in quarter 2 2017/18 against the Council’s three priorities using 40 measures of success and 13 programmes which supported the priorities.

However, this report only included information on 29 measures of success as 11 of these were either data only, or data was not expected until after the report was published.

The report highlighted the following:

Council Plan measures of success:

·         69% on target; and

·         53% improved over the long term.

Examples of new achivements in quarter 2 included:

·         £3.7 million Local Growth Funding  –  successfully secured for Rochester Airport Technology Park;

·         £200,000 Controlling Migration Funding –  successfully secured;

·         All 15 business units let –  new Innovation Studios, Strood;

·         Eastgate House – Grade 1 listed Elizabethan Town House –  opened  – July;

·         New state of the art Medway Archive Centre opened – July;

·         312 private sector properties improved due to Medway intervention (target: 100)

·         7 sites awarded Green Flag status – July;

·         1st Schools’ Emotional and Wellbeing Conference – July –  100 attendees;

·         4th annual Healthy Weight Summit –  6 July –  over 25 partner agencies attended; and

·         2 ‘Big Lunch’ events – promoting social connectedness among communities.

Examples of performance improvements included:

·         84.9% (62) primary schools judged ‘good’ or better compared with 83.1% (59) in Q1;

·         Biggest improvement in health visiting coverage of any authority in the South East since transition;

·         57.3% achieved required standard (reading, writing, maths) KS2 compared with 49% in 2015/16;

·         50% of adults with learning difficulties in settled accommodation compared with 48.4% in Q1.

Cabinet Members highlighted a number of successes within their portfolios.

Reasons:

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