Agenda item

Report from the Assistant Chief Executive.

Recommendations

That Cabinet:

1.    Recommend the Council Plan 2022-2025 to Council for approval.

2.    Recommend the Year Ahead Delivery Plan to Council for approval.

3.    Recommend that the first quarterly progress update is provided in June 2022.

Consideration was given to the report which explained that a new Council Plan had been developed for 2022-25. The Plan was attached at Appendix 1, and the Year Ahead Delivery Plan 2022 was attached at Appendix 2 to the report.

The Council had adopted the Year Ahead Plan in September 2020 as the Council Plan for operating within the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan had been extended in March 2021 and finished at the end of November 2021.

The Council Plan 2022-25 had been developed following a public consultation and was a key document outlining the Council’s vision for the Borough and the priorities for serving residents and communities. The consultation had included online and postal surveys, focus groups and engagement at the Rotherham Show. Appendix 3 detailed the key findings of the consultation. Engagement also took place with key stakeholders, Cabinet Members and the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board. There was also an engagement session available for all Elected Members.

This engagement led to the Plan being framed around five themes:

-       Every neighbourhood thriving

-       People are safe, healthy and live well

-       Every child able to fulfil their potential

-       Expanding economic opportunity

-       A cleaner, greener local environment

There were 26 outcomes and 47 commitments include in the Plan. In order to work towards the Council Plan outcomes and achieve the commitments, a Year Ahead Delivery Plan had been developed which set out the key activities to be delivered from January 2022 to March 2023.  This included 91 priority actions/milestones.

It was proposed that the first Council Plan progress report, covering the period January 2022 to March 2022, be reported to Cabinet in June 2022.

This report had been selected for pre-decision scrutiny by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board held on 15th December, 2021. All of the recommendations were fully supported. Further, OSMB requested that they continue to monitor performance against the objectives contained in the new Council Plan by receiving the quarterly performance reports produced for Cabinet as part of their pre-decision scrutiny role.

Resolved:

That Cabinet:

1.    Recommend to Council that the Council Plan 2022-2025 be approved.

2.    Recommend to Council that the Year Ahead Delivery Plan be approved.

3.    Recommend that the first quarterly progress update is provided by the Cabinet in June 2022.

4.    Agree that that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board should continue to monitor performance against the objectives contained in the new Council Plan by receiving the quarterly performance reports produced for Cabinet as part of its pre-decision scrutiny role.