Agenda item

The Committee received a report which presented an overview of progress towards achieving the key priorities within the Council Plan 2023-27 in line with the Council’s corporate performance framework. The report covered performance in and to the end of quarter one 2023/24, April to June 2023 (for copy of report see file of minutes).

Matthew Peart, Strategy Team Leader was in attendance to present the report and highlighted the main areas contained within the report.

In response to a question from Councillor Quinn, the Strategy Team Leader confirmed that 18-64 admissions were recorded and reported nationally and were very low for the quarter one outturn and would provide Members with a copy of the quarter one report for 18-64 admissions.

Councillor Quinn referred to the Wellbeing for Life Programme and if this was making an impact in particular on admissions.

The Strategy Team Leader advised that he was unable to confirm if the programme had impacted on admissions.

Councillor Higgins referred to the number of referrals that was down compared to the previous two years but they were not hitting the quarterly figures and asked if this was due to not enough staff or if there was more of an issue.

The Director Integrated Community Services responded that due to leave they did not have the right number of staff in some teams to hit the performance target. There was also the issue of the new system for recording that was not recording the way they would like in particular the closing of cases quickly enough.

In response to a question, Officers confirmed that life expectancy was increasing.

Resolved: (i) That the overall strong position and direction of travel in relation to quarter one performance, and the actions being taken to address areas of challenge be noted.

(ii) That the changes and improvements to the new format performance report which would be used exclusively from quarter two 2023/24 be noted.