Meeting documents

1 THE ISSUE

1.1 Council Performance Report by Executive Portfolio for periods April to July 2006

2 RECOMMENDATION

2.1 Note the contents of this report and consider whether additional actions are required to improve performance

3  FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

3.1 Contained within the report

4 COMMUNITY STRATEGY OUTCOMES

5 CORPORATE IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIES

6 CPA KEY LINES OF ENQUIRY

o Sustainable Communities and Transport

o Safer and Stronger Communities

o Healthier Communities

7 THE REPORT

7.1 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 1^st public report for 2006/07 from the new system.

7.2 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.

7.3 The layout and form has changed for 2006/07 reports and this report contains information by Executive Portfolio relating to finance and risk within the narrative section of the report and performance progress against all national Best Value performance indicators and key local performance indicators.

7.4 The report includes a summary, by portfolio, of key achievements and issues for the period April - July 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 ® )

7.5 The overall performance of the Council was confirmed as good by the Audit Commission with a 3 star rating (out of a possible 4). The Council continues to make good progress against improvement priorities and maintain improvements in already high performing services such as recycling and raising education standards as well as generally improving the value for money of its services.

7.6 In 2005/06 56% of targets were achieved against national performance indicators. This is an improvement on previous years of 55% in 2004/5 and 53% in 2003/4. 53% of our national indicators are improving with a further 12% remaining the same (half of these are at 100% and are already performing at the highest level).

8 RISK MANAGEMENT

8.1 The report author and Lead Executive member have fully reviewed the risk assessment related to the issue and recommendations, in compliance with the Council's decision making risk management guidance.

8.2 There is a risk relating to the Council's Comprehensive Performance Assessment score if performance against targets is not achieved.

9 RATIONALE

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

10 OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED

10.1 None

11 CONSULTATION

11.1 Consultation has been carried out with Executive Councillors, Section 151 Finance Officer; Chief Executive; Monitoring Officer and other Strategic Directors through existing meeting schedules.

12 ISSUES TO CONSIDER IN REACHING THE DECISION

12.1 Social Inclusion; Customer Focus; Sustainability; Human Resources; Property; Young People; Equality (age, race, disability, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation); Human Rights; Corporate;

13 ADVICE SOUGHT

13.1 Directors' Group including the Council's Monitoring Officer (Council Solicitor) and Section 151 Officer (Strategic Director Support Services) have had the opportunity to input to this report and have cleared it for publication in agreement with the Executive