Issue - meetings

That Cabinet note:

a)       the report at Appendix A and its recommendations; and

b)      the formation of a Working Group tasked with forming an action plan to address those findings.

Reasons for Decision:

The LGA team provided a presentation of key findings on the last day of the Peer Challenge and have now followed this up with a full report. It is now important for the Council to examine those findings and produce an action plan on how we will use the recommendations to improve our performance.

Options Considered:

The review could be delegated to the Policy & Performance Improvement Committee, but it is considered appropriate for the Leader of the council to chair the group and for senior Members of Cabinet, Policy & Performance Improvement and Audit & Governance Committees all to be involved. Work streams can be delegated to Policy & Performance Improvement Committee, Audit & Governance Committee and other Council bodies as appropriate.

The Director – Customer Services & Organisational Development presented a report which updated the Cabinet on the results from the Council’s Peer Challenge undertaken by the Local Government Association (LGA) and set out the next steps towards the development of an action plan to tackle the report findings. The full report was attached as an appendix to the report.

The LGA report recommendations were summarised, and it was proposed to convene a member Working Group to discuss the report findings and agree an action plan to respond to any areas that require development. The membership of the Working Group was set out in paragraph 3.2 of the report.

AGREED     (unanimously) that Cabinet note:

a)       the report at Appendix A and its recommendations; and

b)      the formation of a Working Group tasked with forming an action plan to address those findings.

Reasons for Decisions:

The LGA team provided a presentation of key findings on the last day of the Peer Challenge and have now followed this up with a full report. It is now important for the Council to examine those findings and produce an action plan on how we will use the recommendations to improve our performance.

Options Considered:

The review could be delegated to the Policy & Performance Improvement Committee, but it is considered appropriate for the Leader of the council to chair the group and for senior Members of Cabinet, Policy & Performance Improvement and Audit & Governance Committees all to be involved. Work streams can be delegated to Policy & Performance Improvement Committee, Audit & Governance Committee and other Council bodies as appropriate.