Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance and Core Services introduced the Corporate Performance monitoring report for the first quarter of the 2019/20 financial year, which set out progress in respect of the Key Accountabilities and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It was noted that 35 % of the KPIs had been ‘RAG’ rated ‘green’, 35 % were rated ‘amber’ and 7 % were rated ‘red’ (16 % fell into the ‘not applicable’ category because a target had not yet been set, or performance data being awaited).

The Cabinet Member was pleased to report that the Summer of Festivals programme for 2019, which related to the Key Accountability of ensuring culture was a driver of change, was a huge success and would be built upon next year with a new event, ‘Defected London Festival’, a large scale dance music event at Central Park.

The Cabinet Member stated that the percentage of staff who had completed mandatory training and sickness absence KPIs were both rated amber. With respect to the first, managers had been tasked with encouraging their staff to complete the training and with respect to sickness absence, the average number of days lost in Quarter 1 was 6.57 days and continued to reduce towards the year-end target of 6 days.

Members made reference to the Council’s participation in the PRIDE London event and the Cabinet Member for Education and School Improvement thanked officers and Cabinet Members for working together with her in compiling data on young people ‘not in education, employment or training’ so that interventions could be put in place to support the young people identified.

Cabinet resolved to:

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

(ii)  Note performance against the Key Performance Indicators as detailed in Appendix 2 to the report.