Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Policy and Strategic Services on the Council’s performance against its priority objectives over the ensuing year.

Noted a performance management data for the Council’s Corporate Plan – “Growing Success” and a timetable for a review.

The Cabinet received a report by the Head of Policy and Strategic Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) presenting performance management data for the Council’s Corporate Plan – “Growing Success”.

Having noted that the annual review of the plan had been deferred pending the preparation of a new Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement for Cambridgeshire and the issue identified by the Overview and Scrutiny Panel for Service Support regarding attainment of the objective in relation to the Council being an employer for whom people wanted to work, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that the timetable for the review of the plan and performance management data be noted.

To consider and comment on a report by the Head of Policy and Strategic Services containing details of the Council’s performance against its priority objectives over the ensuing year.

(Colour copies of this report are attached separately to the Agenda).

20 Minutes.

(Councillor A Hansard, Executive Councillor for Resources and Policy, was in attendance for this Item).

The Panel considered a report by the Head of Policy and Strategic Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) containing details of the Council’s performance against its priority objectives.

The Executive Councillor for Resources and Policy reported that the annual review of Growing Success would be completed over the ensuing months and that the views of the Corporate Plan Working Group would be taken into account in the process.

Having drawn the Panel’s attention to two areas identified within the report where the Council had not achieved its targets, the Head of Policy and Strategic Services reported that with regard to the key measure concerning attendance at school, outreach and holiday activity programmes, the quarterly targets that had been set did not reflect seasonal variations. Additionally, Members noted that the programmes offered by the five Leisure Centres across the District had not yet been incorporated within the measure. However, it was reported that these factors would be incorporated into the key measure in the future.

In terms of the key measure relating to the delivery of a proportion of affordable housing(commitments) on qualifying sites, Members noted that the actual performance had been affected by the fact that limited affordable housing had been allocated in the particular area that had been constructed during that period.

Having expressed their satisfaction with the levels of performance achieved in the year to date, the Panel

RESOLVED

  that the report be endorsed for submission to the Cabinet.