Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive

Recommendations:-

1. That the overall position and direction of travel in relation to the Council Plan performance be noted.

2. That measures which are not achieving their targets and the actions required to improve performance, including future performance clinics, be discussed.

3. That the performance reporting timetable for 2019-2020 be noted. 

Consideration was given to the latest Council Plan updated underpinning the Council’s overall vision and set out the headline priorities, outcomes and measures that would demonstrate its delivery.

The Council Plan for the period 2017-2020 was approved by Elected Members at the Council meeting on 12^th July, 2017. Refreshed performance measures covering the 2019-2020 financial year were approved by Cabinet on 20^th May, 2019 and Council on 24^th July, 2019.

Formal quarterly performance reports were presented in public at Cabinet meetings, with an opportunity for Scrutiny consideration if required.  This report was the third report in the 2019-2020 reporting cycle covering Quarter 3 (1^st October 2019 to 31^st December 2019). 

The Quarter 3 Performance Report provided an analysis of the Council’s current performance against 13 key delivery outcomes and 69 measures. 

At the end of Quarter 3, 28 measures (49%) had either met or had exceeded the target set in the Council Plan.  This is the same number of measures hitting target as Quarter 2, although the percentage of measures on target was a slight reduction in performance when compared to Quarter 2 (52%). This was due to more measures having data included in this quarter than in Quarter 2.  However, performance was still significantly higher than at this time last year, when only 42% of measures had hit their targets.

The direction of travel was positive for 37 (66%) of the indicators measured in this quarter. This is a significant improvement when compared to the 56% figure for the last quarter and the overall direction of travel of Council Plan measures was now very positive, even though the number of measures hitting their target had not yet accelerated.

Resolved:-

(1)  That the overall position and direction of travel in relation to the Council Plan performance be noted.

(2)  That measures which are not achieving their targets and the actions required to improve performance, including future performance clinics, be discussed.

(3)  That the performance reporting timetable for 2019-2020 be noted.