Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of how the Council had performed during quarter 2 in 2020/21 against the Council’s three priorities and the actions being taken to improve performance.

There were 48 Council Plan measures for 2020/21, of which it was currently possible to report on 35 as one was data only and 12 were not available for the reporting quarter. In summary, 24 out of 35 measures had met or exceeded target, 1 was slightly below target and 10 were significantly below target.

The report explained that during quarter 1 2020/21, a fundamental review of the Strategic Risk Register had taken place in view of the Covid-19 response and recovery. As a result of this review, the Quarter 2 review had been more light touch. Risk owners had reviewed and updated their risks, which had subsequently been reviewed and agreed by the Strategic Risk Management Group on 1 October 2020, with there having been no changes to current residual risk scores. The report explained that it was agreed at this meeting that Employment Skills should not be a separate risk as the Economic Recovery risk (SR46), which was already on the Strategic Risk Register, incorporated skills and employability. It was also agreed that a separate risk for Commercial Income should be added to the Register at Quarter 3 monitoring and that a Climate Change indicator should be added to the Register.

The report noted that the report would be considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees during November and December 2020.

Reasons:

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