Issue - meetings

To present the Executive with the new strategic performance measure set for information and final approval in advance of quarter one 2019/20 performance reporting commencing on 1 July 2019.

Decision

That the proposed new strategic performance measure set and allocated targets, in advance of quarter one 2019/20 performance commencing on 1 July 2019, be approved.

None.

The current performance management system which provided information for the corporate reports to Corporate Management Team and elected members was unlikely to be supported in the near future by the software suppliers and by the Council’s internal IT system. Work had therefore been undertaken to develop a new in-house performance system. As part of this development, officers from the Policy Team had been working with service managers, assistant directors and directors to review the existing measure set which would help to ensure that performance measures included in this set continued to be the right measures to report moving forwards. All measures within the new strategic measure set had both high and low targets allocated to them, with the exception of those considered to be volumetric.

Appendices A to C showed the new set of strategic performance measures with targets split by directorate and by quarterly or annual collection. All corporate measures would continue to be collected, however, the presentation of these measures would change as a result of being reported through a new system.

The new measure set was formed of 68 targeted measures, 17 volumetric measures and six corporate measures.

The Performance Scrutiny Committee had considered this report at its meeting on 5 June 2019.

Councillor Ric Metcalfe commented that performance monitoring and the measures and targets associated with it was becoming more and more sophisticated and wecolmed this piece of work.