Issue - meetings

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Resources regarding the borough’s end of year 2008/09 performance against the Local Area Agreement (LAA) Indicators.

The borough’s performance is above the London average in areas such as:

• Young people’s participation in positive activities;
• The gap in attainment of Level 3 at age 19 in each Local Authority between those young people who were in receipt of free school meals at academic age 15 and those who were not; and
• Narrowing the gap between the lowest achieving 20% in the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and the rest.

Noted however that a focus on performance is required in the following areas:

• Housing;
• Attainment;
• NEETS (Not in Employment, Education or Training);
• Obesity;
• Teenage Pregnancy; and
• Place Survey Indicators – Overall satisfaction and percentage of people who believe people from different backgrounds get on well.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve all of its Community Priorities, to:

(i)  Note the performance of the LAA Indicators overall; and

(ii)  Note the changes in performance and key projects related to the poorly performing indicators.