Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Growth and Investment introduced the corporate performance framework report for the second quarter of the 2017/18 financial year.

The Cabinet Member referred to the Performance Challenge sessions at which portfolio holders and senior managers discussed detailed performance data with the Cabinet Member for Corporate Performance and Delivery and he highlighted several areas of improvement for the latest period, such as staff sickness absence and Members’ Enquiries response rates.  Other issues that arose during the discussions included:

·  That 57% of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were improving;

·  The workshop sessions held earlier in the year to consider the issue of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) had helped the Borough to improve on a national level from the 4^th quartile to the 2^nd quartile;

·  The recent announcement regarding the devolution of health care in London which would help bring about real health improvements locally;

·  That the Environment and Street Scene services were meeting all of their KPIs and Barking and Dagenham was now the second highest recycler in the area covered by the East London Waste Authority (ELWA);

·  That despite the Government’s austerity measures which had taken £130m annual funding from the Council, the residents of Barking and Dagenham continued to receive good quality public services.

The Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Note progress against the Key Accountabilities at 30 September 2017 as detailed in Appendix 1 to the report; and

(ii)  Note performance against the KPIs at 30 September 2017 as detailed in Appendix 2 to the report.