Meeting documents

1 THE ISSUE

1.1 This report presents the Council report on performance for September - January which is attached as Appendix 1

2 RECOMMENDATION

2.1 The Council Executive is asked to note the contents of this report and consider whether additional actions are required to improve performance

3 FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

3.1 Contained in the report

4 THE REPORT

4.1 The Executive has received 4 monthly Performance reports on cross council topics for some years, plus a 6 monthly Council Performance report. We have now introduced a new Performance Monitoring System which enables more flexible web-based analysis of performance across the Council. The report enclosed in the Appendix is the second public report from the new system.

4.2 We have taken the opportunity to simplify the performance report in order to make it more easily understood. The system allows a variety of different analyses, for instance we are producing reports designed for each Overview & Scrutiny Panel. The enclosed report is the one we propose for the Executive to receive every 3 months.

4.3 The report contains a report on progress, by Executive portfolio, including performance indicators published in the Council's Performance Plan. This replaces the 4 monthly performance reports.

4.4 The report includes a summary, by portfolio, of key achievements and issues for the period Sept - Jan 2006, plus an accompanying summary of the progress against performance targets, showing whether we are achieving target to date (`green', `amber' or `red') and whether we are improving or deteriorating since the previous quarter( < or ® )

5 RISK MANAGEMENT

5.1 The report author and Decision maker have fully reviewed the risk assessment related to the issue and recommendations, in compliance with the Council's decision making risk management guidance.

6 RATIONALE

6.1 This report is a key part of the Council's performance management framework

7 OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED

7.1 The new system allows for a wide range of flexible reporting analyses. The report proposed is our preferred public report as we believe it explains progress against complex targets in a simple fashion.

8 CONSULTATION

8.1 We have consulted Executive Councillor with responsibility for Performance, other Executive Members, Section 151 Finance Officer, Chief Executive and Monitoring Officer