Agenda item

Council Plan and Year Ahead Delivery Plan Progress Update

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive.

 

Recommendations:

 

That Cabinet:

 

1.    Note the overall position in relation to the Year Ahead Delivery Plan activities.

2.    Note the Quarter 4 and year-end 2023-24 data for the Council Plan performance measures.

3.    Agree the revised Council Plan performance measure targets and new Year Ahead Delivery Plan for 2024-25 for the final year of the current Council Plan.

4.    Note that future progress reports will be presented to Cabinet in January and July 2025. 

 

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the report which presented the Year Ahead Delivery Plan for 2023-24 Monitoring Report (Appendix 1,). This was the second such report with the first being presented to Cabinet on 22 January 2024. The report also contained the proposed revised performance measures targets for 2024-25 (Appendix 2) and the new Year Ahead Delivery Plan for 2024-25 (Appendix 3.)

 

As of 11 July 2024, the activities within the Year Ahead Delivery Plan were rated as follows:

 

  • 78% (76) complete
  • 0% (0) were on track to be delivered by original target date
  • 4% (4) were delayed by less than 3 months
  • 18% (18) would not be met within 3 months of original target date.

 

In terms of Year-end performance, 59% of measures were on or above target.

 

To ensure the Council remained focussed on working towards the outcomes and commitments set out in the Council Plan, a review of the Council Plan performance measures had been conducted and a new Year Ahead Delivery Plan developed for 2024-25. The Council Plan was in place until 2025 and therefore, as the final year of the plan period, the number of revisions to targets had been kept to a minimum (8 changes in total). The changes made were to align targets to the latest benchmarking data and ensure those were aspirational but achievable. The definition for the way in which some measures were calculated (3 in total) had also been revised, to provide a more accurate picture of activity.

The Leader confirmed that work had begun on the new Council Plan that would commence in 2025 and this would be consulted on over summer 2024.

Members of Cabinet were invited to detail the achievements against the priorities from the last year:

Councillor Cusworth highlighted the:

 

  • Delivery of year one and two of the Rotherham Family Hubs programme.
  • Opening of a new two-bedroom residential home.
  • Training of 13 young people via the Independent Travel Training Scheme.
  • Launch of the Early Help Strategy and Corporate Parenting Strategy.

Councillor Allen highlighted:

  • Housing delivery with over 565 homes added to the Council home portfolio between January 2018 and June 2024.
  • Good scores from the Tenant Satisfaction Measures survey.
  • The improvements in dealing with new claims for Housing Benefits and Council Tax Support.
  • The meeting of the 100% target for the proportion of council housing stock that met the “Decent Homes” standard.
  • The case study on the new energy efficient Council housing development in East Herringthorpe.

Councillor Sheppard highlighted:

 

  • The provision of 75,904 food vouchers for free school meals in the school holidays.
  • The Rotherham Health Holidays Programme.
  • The new model for food crisis provision.
  • Council Tax support schemes.
  • The opening of Swinton Library.
  • The opening of 14 new playgrounds

 

Councillor Sheppard confirmed that there would be delays to the restoration of Waterloo Kiln, but it was estimated to be completed by September 2024.

Councillor Alam highlighted:

 

  • The completion of the second phase of CCTV investment.
  • The number of community protection notices issued (1,193 against a target of 1000.)
  • The increase in the engagement rate with domestic abuse support services.
  • The implementation of a new model of equalities engagements including a new dedicated post.
  • The launch of the new Management Development Programme.
  • The increased participation in the Employee Opinion Survey.

 

Councillor Alam noted that positive outcomes for hate crime investigations was 7.6% at year-end against a year-end target of 20%.

The report was considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board (OSMB), who advised that the recommendations be supported. Councillor Steele noted the improvements to the format of the report.


Resolved:

 

That Cabinet:

  1. Note the overall position in relation to the Year Ahead Delivery Plan activities.

  2. Note the Quarter 4 and year-end 2023-24 data for the Council Plan performance measures.

  3. Agree the revised Council Plan performance measure targets and new Year Ahead Delivery Plan for 2024-25 for the final year of the current Council Plan.

  4. Note that future progress reports will be presented to Cabinet in January and July 2025.

 

 

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