Issue - meetings

Purpose of report

To present a review of the Council's performance against the Corporate Plan 2024-27 and Productivity Plan 2024/25.

Decision

Cabinet noted the review of the delivery of the Corporate Plan 2024-27.

Alternative options considered and rejected

The Overview & Scrutiny Committees (OSCs) lead on performance monitoring and scrutiny. Therefore, performance could purely be reported to the respective OSC. Whilst offering focused scrutiny in line with the Committee remits, the individual OSCs would be unable to assess the Council’s performance on the whole. This report provided an accessible and strategic overview of overall delivery for 2024/25. Detailed KPI reports for Q4 2024/25 would be presented to the OSCs over the Q2 2025/26 committee cycle.

Reasons for the decision

This summary report was presented to deliver a strategic overview of the first year of the Corporate Plan and to offer assurance to residents and Members on the ongoing commitment to continuous improvement. There was also a summary update on the delivery of initiatives with the Productivity Plan. Productivity Plans were required in Spring 2024, but this workstream had not been carried forward by the current government.

There was scope for new actions to be included. For example, if there were changes with regard to Local Government Reorganisation different criteria for measuring performance could be required.

Each target had been agreed by the relevant committee. Some targets were measured across departments; for example, housing targets could fall within the remit of the Housing and Planning teams.