Issue - decisions

This report provided details of the Council’s performance for 2009/2010 with particular reference to performance against indicators and actions agreed in the Council Plan 2009/2012. This included performance against the six priorities and two core values in the Council Plan and performance achieved against individual detailed actions and performance indicators relating to those priorities.

It was noted that of 116 key performance indicators, 64 had achieved or outperformed the annual target, 17 were below target but within acceptable variance limits and 35 had performed below target.

The report had been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees and this was summarised in paragraph 4 of the report.

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.