Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Corporate Director of Resources, which provided an overview of progress towards achieving the key outcomes of the council’s corporate performance framework (for copy see file of Minutes).

The Strategy Team Leader gave an outline of the report and highlighted two particular areas: firstly the impact of COVID and secondly, the impact of the cost-of-living crisis.

Councillor Joe Quinn raised concerns around Selective Licensing and the action taken by private landlords in connection to Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), noting that there did not appear to be much action taken by private landlords in comparison to action taken against social housing tenants.

Debra Kitching, the Strategy Team Leader noted the concerns raised by Councillor Quinn and informed the Committee she would feed those concerns back.

Councillor David Boyes raised concerns around information that was not in the report, bringing attention to the lack of data around drug and alcohol and its links to ASB, noting that the report was indicator based with no data to show successful completions. Councillor Boyes noted that members had not had any direct input into the performance report. He requested that data regarding the rates of successful completions of drug and alcohol service interventions be included in future reports.

The Strategy Team Leader informed the Committee that the performance report was linked to the council plan, and the report was undergoing a refresh adding that members comments would be fed into the process.

Councillor Boyes commented that the Committee was being presented with little data.

Jane Sunter, the Public Health Strategic Manager gave assurances that targets around alcohol and drug issues were still being met.

Chief Fire Officer, Stuart Errington agreed with comments made by Councillor Boyes noting that the report was now significantly smaller than previous reports, and that there was data the Committee was not seeing. The Chief Fire Officer added that the Committee should be celebrating the positive figures and not just seeing the negative.

Stephen Gwillym, Principal Overview and Scrutiny Officer reminded members about the joint online informal session taking place on Wednesday 9 November 2022 regarding empty homes after concerns were raised around ASB in these types of properties at the last meeting.

Resolved

That the content of the report be noted

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