Meeting documents

Corporate Scrutiny Sub-Committee (DCC)
Monday 27 February 2006


            Meeting: Corporate Scrutiny Sub-Committee (County Hall, Durham - Committee Room 1a - 27/02/2006 10:00:00 AM)

                  Item: A5 The Performance Management Report


         


Corporate Scrutiny
Sub-Committee
27th February 2006
Effective Corporate Leadership ~
3rd Quarter Performance 2005/06
Report of the Head of Corporate Policy

Purpose of the Report

1. The purpose of this report is to provide the third quarter performance update (2005/06) and final quartile positions (2004/05) for Best Value Performance Indicators relevant to our Corporate Aim, Ensuring Effective Corporate Leadership.

Quartile Positions 04/05
2. There are 8 Best Value Performance Indicators aligned to Ensuring Effective Corporate Leadership that can be tracked from 2003/04. Of these, 7 held the previous year’s quartile position and 1 improved from 2nd to top quartile (11a top 5% earners that are women). The following table contains the 2004/05 quartile positions for 12 quartiled corporate health BVPIs.

Quartile Position BVPI
Top 11c % top 5% earners that are women
157 E Government: E-enabled interactions
Second 2b Duty to promote race equality
11b Top 5% of earners from black & minority ethnic groups
15 Ill health retirements
Third 8 Invoices paid by the authority within 30 days
12 Days / shifts lost to sickness absence
Bottom 14 % employees retiring early
16a/16b % employees with a disability /% of economically active disabled in population
17a/17b % of black & ethnic minority employees / % of economically active minority ethnic in population

Third Quarter Performance

3. 3rd quarter performance 05/06 for BVPIs aligned to Ensuring Effective Corporate Leadership and estimates of year-end outturn where available are available in Appendix A.

Improvements
4. A number of BVPIs have improved performance since final outturn for 2004/05 and the following are of particular note:
  • 8 Invoices paid within 30 days. This BVPI has been 3rd quartile from 2001/02 to 2004/05. Performance during 2005/06 has improved by more than 4% and year-end outturn is expected to exceed target.
  • 11a Women in top 5% of earners . Improved performance during 2004/05 resulted in a top quartile position for this BVPI. Performance during 2005/06 has further improved and is likely to achieve the target set.
  • 156 Local Authority Buildings - disabled access. Performance in the third quarter has improved slightly and it is expected that final outturn will reach the 50% target by the year-end 2005/06
Potential cause for concern
5. A number of indicators are not set to achieve their year-end target 05/06 or where performance has deteriorated. Of particular note:

11b Black / ethnic minorities in top 5% of earners. 04/05 performance resulted in a 2nd quartile position for this indicator. Performance during 05/06 has deteriorated and is likely to result in a drop in quartile position.
12 Days/ shifts lost to sickness absence. Performance 04/05 was third quartile, the position has not improved, and we are unlikely to achieve the 05/06 target.
  • 14 Employees retiring early. 2004/05’s performance resulted in a bottom quartile position for this indicator. Performance has not improved although it is slightly better than the target for 05/06. This performance is likely to result in another bottom quartile position for 05/06
Recommendations

That Corporate Scrutiny Sub-Committee Members:

i. note the contents of this report
ii. agree to receiving subsequent quarterly performance progress reports
Contact: Bev Stobbart Tel: 0191 383 4001


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Attachments


 Perf Man Cov Rep.pdf