Meeting documents

1 THE ISSUE

1.1 The Council's Planning & Review Framework requires all the targets in the Performance Plan to be reported every 4 months. Twice a year these figures are brought together in a Council Performance Report. This is the second of these reports for 2004-2005.

2 RECOMMENDATION

2.1 Note the contents of the paper.

3 FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

3.1 There are financial benefits in achieving the targets in the Public Service Agreement (PSA). These are contained in a separate report at this meeting. Any financial impacts of not achieving other targets are dealt with in this and/or other reports.

4 THE REPORT

4.1 This report summarises the main issues that have been identified in previous 4-monthly performance reports and indicates progress against the targets in the 2004/05 Performance Plan.

4.2 Where targets are not progressing as planned appropriate corrective actions have been detailed.

5 RISK MANAGEMENT

6 RATIONALE

6.1 In January 2003 the Resources and Customer Service Overview & Scrutiny Panel requested that the Executive set out what actions it proposes taking to address performance that was not meeting targets (refer 4.2 above).

6.2 The panel also asked the Executive to highlight which indicators were more important (or `key') (Section 6 of attached report refers).

7 OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED

7.1 None.

8 CONSULTATION

8.1 A copy of this report has been sent to Trades Unions; any comments will be reported to the meeting.