Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Executive Officer which presented an overview of progress towards achieving the key outcomes of the council’s corporate performance framework and highlighted key messages to inform strategic priorities and work programmes. The report covered performance in and to the end of quarter three, 2022/23, October to December 2022 (for copy see file of minutes).

Councillor Stubbs pointed out an error in the report regarding healthy life expectancy for males. A Harrington, Strategy Team Leader, Corporate Affairs thanked Councillor Stubbs for highlighting this and agreed for this to be amended.

Councillor Higgins was concerned that reviews of adult social care service users had reduced again and stressed it was vital for regular reviews to take place. The Strategy Team Leader appreciated Councillor Higgins concerns and agreed to feed these back but gave assurance that the new central Review Team would address this issue and had to report weekly to the Director of Adult and Health Services. Further to this, the Director of Integrated Community Services advised that whilst it was preferable in terms of accountability for the caseworker to undertake the review as they knew the family, the central Review Team would help alleviate some of the pressures faced by the community teams but stated that this would be monitored.

Resolved

That the overall position and direction of travel in relation to quarter three performance, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic recovery and the external international factors driving inflation and cost-of-living on the council’s performance, and the actions being taken to address areas of underperformance including the significant economic and well-being challenges because of the pandemic be noted.